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English - May 11, 2024 05:21 - 4 minutes - 3.74 MB
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The Flight of the Duchess
By Robert Browning

Narrated by Denis Daly

This dramatic romance, first published in 1845, ostensibly relates the story of the escape of a love-lorn young woman from the rigours of life with a stern and uncaring husband. Several commentators have seen the poem as an oblique reference to Browning's own current life situation, in which he enabled his future wife, Elizabeth Barrett, to escape from the confines of a patriarchal household to Italy, a country which forms the backdrop to many of his poems.