“Love Stronger than Death” appears in Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux’s first poetry collection, A Handful of Honeysuckle (C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878). The book was published under her maiden name, A. Mary F. Robinson. In her book, A. Mary F. Robinson: Victorian Poet and Modern Woman of Letters (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), Patricia Rigg mentions that the poems in Honeysuckle suggest “escape from nihilistic despair […] through transcendent love as a way to fill the spiritual void into which Robinson’s speakers fall from time to time.” Rigg goes on to say that “Love Stronger than Death” evokes the imagery of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Blessed Damozel” and the “degree of separation between lovers as they journey upward toward heaven.” In “Cosmopolitan Aestheticism: The Affective ‘Italian’ Ethics of A. Mary F. Robinson,” scholar of nineteenth-century literature and associate dean at Birkbeck, University of London, Ana Parejo Vadillo, states, “A Handful of Honeysuckle (1878), clearly under the influence of Pre-Raphaelitism […] created an aesthetic world embedded in a European ‘Ideal’ past ([Robinson] was an Idealist and saw the world as a sign and symbol of the soul) that jarred with Victorian mass culture.”