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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Robert Browning
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(1812–89) Poet whose work is for the most part dense in content and allusion though often conversational in tone. He is widely remembered for two of his slighter pieces, The *Pied Piper of Hamelin and Home-Thoughts, from Abroad ('Oh to be in England/ Now that April's there'). In 1845 he met Elizabeth Barrett, a poet living the life of an invalid in the household of a tyrannical father; their love affair, which is chronicled day by day in secret letters, led to a clandestine marriage in 1846 and elopement to Italy. Elizabeth then recovered her health, becoming better known to history as Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61). They lived mainly in Florence until her death.
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