SD2030. Robert Bulwer Lytton to John Forster
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 264 (in part).
Hague
24 Decr. 1856
My dear friend,
I did not half answer your letter in my last few lines …
Aurora Leigh is a masterpiece. I cannot speak up to the full height of my admiration of the marvelous & masculine genius with which it glows from the first page to the last. It is the Epic of this age. Ah what a Woman! …
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Lord Cobbold.
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