Chiswick House

Shortly after meeting William Wordsworth and Mary Russell Mitford at a dinner on 28 May 1836, Elizabeth Barrett Browning accompanied them for a visit to the Duke of Devonshire’s garden at Chiswick.

Elba

Haydon portrait of NapoleonElba is an island in the Mediterranean where Napoleon was exiled after his first defeat and abdication in 1814.  Image:  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Napoleon Musing at St Helena.