Cinnamon Hill Great House, Jamaica

The Cinnamon Hill Great House was the plantation owned by Elizabeth Barrett Browning's family for a century. It is through the money procured by the Cinnamon Hill Plantation that Elizabeth and Robert Browning are able to make their escape to Italy in 1846, where Elizabeth will write one of her most famous works, "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point." 

Janice Gould - Maidu

The Maidu are an American Indian people of northern California. They reside in the central Sierra Nevada, in the watershed area of the Feather and American rivers. They also reside in Humbug Valley. In Maiduan languages, Maidu means "man." - Wikipedia, Encyclopedua of Native Tribes of North America. 

"A Drama of Exile" in America

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.

Rome, Italy

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. 

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