Exeter is a city in the county of Devon/Devonshire. Mrs.

The United States Magazine and Democratic Review was a highly respected journal that feautured political essays. It was primarily a literary magazine that promoted the development of American literature. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Drama of Exile" was originally issued in two differernt installments in the July and August 1844 issues of this magazine.

It was in Rome that Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning each composed his/her poem for Two Poems, the pamphlet that would be sold in support of English Ragged Schools. The location of the composition is significant to both poems, for in both Elizabeth's "A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London" and in Robert's "The Twins," the narrator acts as an individual from Italy viewing England from an outside perspective. 

London was a busy place during the 1800s and it was home to many famous authors and poets, such as Charles Dickens. Therefore, it should not be a surprise that this is where one of the more prominent Robert Browning Literary Societies was established. One prominent member included Fredrick James Furnivall, who was a correspondent of Robert's and an avid literary scholar.