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- Browning's most renowned work today is likely Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850). This collection comprises forty-four interconnected love poems she composed for her husband. Various editions are available, including a 1997 edition that also features twenty-two additional works by Browning.
- Christina Rossetti, another notable Victorian poet, drew inspiration from Browning. Her diverse range of subjects and verse forms can be explored in The Complete Poems (2001).
- Middlemarch (1872), authored by Mary Ann Evans under the pseudonym George Eliot, narrates the life of a fictional English provincial town during the 1830s and the individuals who influence the community. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels ever written.
- Lady Audley's Secret (1887) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a bestselling sensationalist novel in Victorian England. It satirized the conventional heroine of the era and the middle class's respectability.
- The poetry of Robert Browning, which eventually gained more acclaim than his wife's, is available in multiple editions, such as Robert Browning's Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Criticism (1980).
- Alfred Tennyson, a close friend of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and a fellow poet, remains famous today. His poetry is compiled in Tennyson's Poetry: Authoritative Texts, Context, Criticism (1999).
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