Dared And Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. This item is unavailable.Dared And Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning

A dual biography of two great nineteenth-century British poets discusses their courtship, marriage, and literary work in terms of the mores, institutions, and events of the Victorian era. 12,500 first printing.

Julia Markus graduated from Boston University and received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Robert Browning was the subject of her doctoral thesis, and she has written extensively on both Brownings. She served for eight years on the Board of Directors of the Browning Institute. Ms. Markus is the Director of Creative Writing at Hofstra University. She is the author of four novels: Uncle, which won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award, American Rose. Friends Along the Way, and A Change of' Luck. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Smithsonian and The New York Times. She lives in Connecticut and New York City and is at work on a novel.