title: Browning, Victorian Poetics and the Romantic Legacy: Challenging the Personal Voice
author:  Britta Martens 
description: Britta Martens is a senior lecturer in English at the University of the West of England, UK
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  # Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Henry James
  
  
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  "It's astonishing what you take for granted!" Lady Champer had
  
  
  exclaimed to her young friend at an early stage; and this might have
  
  
  served as a sign that even then the little plot had begun to thicken.
  
  
  The reflection was uttered at the time the outlook of the charming
  
  
  American girl in whom she found herself so interested was still much
  
  
  in the rough. They had often met, with pleasure to each, during a
  
  
  winter spent in Rome; and Lily had come to her in London towards the
  
  
  end of May with further news of a situation the dawn of which, in
  
  
  March and April, by the Tiber, the Arno and the Seine, had
  
  
  considerably engaged her attention. The Prince had followed Miss
  
  
  Gunton to Florence and then with almost equal promptitude to Paris,
  
  
  where it was both clear and comical for Lady Champer that the rigour
  
  
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