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Robert Browning's metier.(Letter to the editor)
From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Date: 20070101
Author:Senelick, Laurence
To the Editor:
These days, when any historical figure who has looked askance at someone of the same sex is qualified anachronistically as "gay," I cannot let stand Richard Canning's statement (Nov.-Dec 2006 issue) that "Robert Browning was one of several schoolmasters dismissed in the 1870's for close friendship with students."
Browning's legendary romance with Elizabeth Barrett should remain unsullied by this gaffe. He was never a schoolmaster and consequently never dismissed. Canning must be thinking of Oscar Browning, a master at Eton and friend of Simeon Solomon, ...
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