By Michael Tilby, PhD, Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK And why shouldn’t Balzac have a beard? EBB to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 February 1845 On my tombstone may be written ‘ci-gît the greatest novel reader in the world’ EBB to Henry … Continue reading Reflections from a Visiting Scholar: In Pursuit of the Brownings as Readers of Balzac