WorkRobert Browning
My Last Duchess Inferred
Robert Browning (1812–1889)
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Documented 1846
Books • Essays
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Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Next came a set of Dramatic Lyrics, from which we select — That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive”
Papers on Literature and Art
Selected verse quotation from 'My Last Duchess' with a surrounding multi-line span indicating a sustained excerpt.
“That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Browning’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 1 April 1846. · 1 April 1846
“That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive; I call That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf 's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p210
Inferred Fuller’s words — “That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive; I call That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf 's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands.…” — point to My Last Duchess, but she does not give the work’s full title or author here; the identification of the specific work is the editor’s.
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p210; page given is to the 1869 reprint.