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My Last Duchess

by Robert Browning

A Renaissance Duke shows a portrait of his late wife to a marriage envoy and reveals, through a calm dramatic monologue, how he had her silenced for smiling too freely.

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4ET1 Component 1 (Unit 1) Section B, and the modular 4XET1. All sixteen are compulsory, not a choice. Expressly NOT part of 4EA1.

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All sixteen texts in Part 3 are compulsory.

Part 3 of the anthology, page 65.

Source: Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology, Issue 8, February 2026 (read 2026-09-19).