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Updated: May 28, 2025

But my admiration for 'Boz' fell from its 'sticking place, I confess, a good furlong, when I read Victor Hugo; and my creed is, that, not in his tenderness, which is as much his own as his humour, but in his serious powerful Jew-trial scenes, he has followed Hugo closely, and never scarcely looked away from 'Les Trois Jours d'un Condamné.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)