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    • 37 Facts About Robert Browning

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    Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets.

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    Robert Browning was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.

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    Robert Browning was born in Walworth in the parish of Camberwell, Surrey, which now forms part of the Borough of Southwark in south London.

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    Robert Browning was baptised on 14 June 1812, at Lock's Fields Independent Chapel, York Street, Walworth, the only son of Sarah Anna and Robert Browning.

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    Robert Browning's father had been sent to the West Indies to work on a sugar plantation but returned to England following a slave revolt.

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    Robert Browning's mother was the daughter of a German shipowner who had settled in Dundee, Scotland, and his Scottish wife.

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    Robert Browning's mother, to whom he was close, was a devout nonconformist and a t