Pamela Neville-Slington

When his beloved wife died in 1861, Robert Browning's entire world changed. He left Italy, his home for the last fifteen years, and returned te, London with his career in tatters and a twelve-year-old son who spoke better Italian than English. Browning knew that he had to break free from the past whilst remaining true to Elizabeth's memory. But this was also a time when the poetic inspiration that had eluded him for years began to flourish once more as he sought to live, and possibly to love, again.