I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.

Davidson 1922 Chester Bennett
Wormwood (1915) Fox
Temporal Power (1916) G. The character of Miss Susan Leg is an author of highly successful but pulpish romance novels who writes under the name of Rudolph da Vinci and first appears in Benson's work a few years after Marie Corelli's death in 1924. Over the fireplace in the fine old spacious lounge at Mason Croft the initials M.

Marie Corelli (1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924) was a British novelist. G. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I.