I may have featured this fact before, but on this date in 1846, Robert and Elizabeth Browning eloped. Elizabeth’s father didn’t like Robert. So she sneaked out of the house. She went back home for a week and kept the marriage secret. Then she ran off and never saw her father again.
For more info:
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/elizabeth-barrett-and-robert-browning-elope
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ebb/ebbio1.html
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