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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  # The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Oct/Nov 1664
  
  
  ### Translator: Mynors Bright, Editor: Wheatley
  
  
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  October 1st. Up and at the office both forenoon and afternoon very busy,
  
  
  and with great pleasure in being so. This morning Mrs. Lane (now Martin)
  
  
  like a foolish woman, came to the Horseshoe hard by, and sent for me
  
  
  while I was: at the office; to come to speak with her by a note sealed
  
  
  up, I know to get me to do something for her husband, but I sent her an
  
  
  answer that I would see her at Westminster, and so I did not go, and she
  
  
  went away, poor soul. At night home to supper, weary, and my eyes sore
  
  
  with writing and reading, and to bed. We go now on with great vigour in
  
  
  preparing against the Dutch, who, they say, will now fall upon us without
  
  
  doubt upon this high newes come of our beating them so, wholly in Guinny.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  2nd (Lord's day). My wife not being well to