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This book explores the complex moral, personal and psychological impact of a forbidden love affair between a young woman, Mildred, and Lord Mertoun, an Earl's son, in 17th-century England. This book is a classic of Victorian literature. The story, which is set against the backdrop of a noble family with a long and illustrious history and told through the perspective of Mildred's brother, Lord Tresham, dramatises questions of honour, shame, and fidelity, which remain highly relevant even to this day. The book is unique in its powerful depiction of personal turmoil and sacrifice in the face of social and familial obligations and explores the ways in which individuals can sometimes be trapped by the weight of societal expectations and mores and the destructive consequences when duty is seen as more important than personal happiness.
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Robert Browning (1812-1889) was born in Camberwell, London, the son of a clerk in the Bank of England. The strongest influence on his education were the books in his father's extensive library, particularly the writings of Byron and Shelley. His dramatic poem "Paracelsus," published in 1835, established his reputation and brought him the friendship of the actor-manager William Macready. When Macready's eldest son Willie was ill in bed, Browning wrote for the boy's entertainment the poem of The Pied Piper, a story he remembered from his own childhood. After its appearance in print in 1842, it became a children's classic, attracting new illustrators in every generation.
In 1846 Robert Browning married a fellow poet, Elizabeth Barrett, eloping with her to Italy where they lived until Elizabeth's death in 1861. He them returned to England to live with his only sister Sarianna, but later he went back to Italy, where he died at the Rezzonico Palace in Venice.
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