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“... content, not given to contemplating other possible ways of being.In The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell imagines the first Lucrezia. Her protagonist, conceived while her mother’s mind is wandering rather than focusing on her marital duty, is a difficult child. She ‘roars and writhes’ and throws off her swaddling-clothes; she refuses to ...”

“... Lucrezia. She died soon afterwards, and Browning wasn’t the only one to suspect foul play. Maggie O’Farrell’s novel The Marriage Portrait takes the opening lines of ‘My Last Duchess’ as one of its epigraphs, and reimagines the story of Lucrezia’s marriage from her point of view. It’s a more conventional historical novel than ...”