On reading Lady Geraldine’s Courtship, a story of how a dashing young poet of limited means but considerable ardour seduced the daughter of an Earl, he must have been quite taken to see one of his own works, Bells and Pomegranates, name-checked (alongside Tennyson, Wordsworth, Petrarch and other luminaries). Two volumes of her poetry had caught the public’s attention, and thus found their way onto Robert’s to-read list. The courtship of Elizabeth Browning (then Barrett) by her future husband Robert Browning could have come, appropriately enough, straight from the pages of a nineteenth century romantic novel. “Inspired by the flash of true genius…” Virginia Woolf
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