The poets who fled from Wimpole Street

ELIZABETH Barrett Browning and her secret husband Robert, made Dieppe their first refuge when they fled from her dominating father, Mr Barrett of Wimpole Street, in September 1846. Elizabeth, regarded by many as the greatest woman poet of the nineteenth century, was also in Dieppe in 1858 when local ivory artist Theodore Blard sculpted her portrait (left). The poets’ love story is told on www.dieppe.fr/blogs/3/articles/58.