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George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1824) · 1821

InferredFuller names Byron explicitly and the character Myrrha. Fuller uses Byron's Myrrha as the benchmark for an idealized woman character that Browning surpasses.

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Documented 1846

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Papers on Literature and Art

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“The girl in the "Return of the Druses" is the sort of nature Byron tried to paint in Myrrha. But Byron could only paint women as they were to him.”

Also reprinted in New-York Daily Tribune. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Inferred Fuller names Byron explicitly and the character Myrrha. Fuller uses Byron's Myrrha as the benchmark for an idealized woman character that Browning surpasses.