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I had seen pictures of Dante and Tasso, and imagined that the Brownings would wear wreaths of laurel round their heads and be draped in togas, so my disappointment was great when our French servant opened the door and announced ‘Monsieur et Madame Brunig’.
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Corkran, H. (2000). The Brownings: a Child’s View. In: Garrett, M. (eds) Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62894-0_42
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