Polyxena, in _King Victor and King Charles_, is partly the political woman and partly the sensible and loving wife of a strangely tempered man.

She is fairly done, but is not interesting.

Good womanly intelligence in affairs, good womanly support of her man; clear womanly insight into men and into intrigue--a woman of whom there are hundreds of thousands in every rank of life.

In her, as in so much of Browning's work, the intellect of the woman is of a higher quality than the intellect of the man.
Next, among his women, is Anael in the _Return of the Druses_, She is placed in too unnatural a situation to allow her nature to have fair play.

In the preternatural world her superstition creates, she adores Djabal, murders the Prefect, and dies by her own hand.