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“Hosmer herself was so taken with the Brownings’ love story and their mutual championship of each other’s artistry that she asked if they would consent to her casting their hands in plaster. When they did, she honored their love in her most unusual work—a bronze sculpture of the Brownings’ clasped hands. Nathaniel Hawthorne would immortalize it…as a symbol of ‘the individuality and heroic union of two high, poetic lives.’ Both full of tenderness and resembling a handshake, Hosmer’s homage to the Brownings gives physical form to the marriage of equals that Margaret Fuller had condoned in Woman as the only form of marriage worth entering.”

-Maria Popova, Figuring