SD1649. Anna Swanwick to Helena Faucit Martin

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 19, 366 (in part).

[London]

26th April 1853.

I cannot resist the impulse, which prompts me to express to you the very great delight with which I witnessed last evening your performance in Colombe’s Birthday. I had previously perused the play with interest, but I had never before been so fully sensible, with what additional force the conception of the poet comes home to the heart and the imagination, when we see it embodied in a living form, and invested with all the charm of beauty, grace, and truth. …

Text: Sir Theodore Martin, Helena Faucit (Edinburgh and London, 1900), p. 240.

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