{"date":"July 18","id":"07-18","intro":["“Browning’s play has thrown me into a perfect passion of sorrow,” wrote Charles Dickens of “The Blot in the ’Scutcheon.” Like Shakespeare’s Juliet, Browning’s Mildred plays the rôle of a youthful lover in a tragic drama."],"minutes":12,"readings":[{"author":"Robert Browning","end":368,"start":359,"volume":18,"work":"Blot in the ’Scutcheon"}],"slug":"july-18","status":"proofread","title":"They Loved in Vain","url":"/harvard-classics/july-18/","words":2434}