Two-way mirror : the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sampson, Fiona2022
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'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways,' Elizabeth Barrett Browning famously wrote, shortly before defying her family by running away to Italy with Robert Browning. But behind the romance of her extraordinary life stands a thoroughly modern figure, who remains an electrifying study in self-invention. Elizabeth was born in 1806, a time when women could neither attend university nor vote, and yet she achieved lasting literary fame. She remains Britain's greatest woman poet, whose work has inspired writers from Emily Dickinson to George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. This biography incorporates recent archival discoveries to reveal the woman herself: a literary giant and a high-profile activist for the abolition of slavery who believed herself to be of mixed heritage; and a writer who defied chronic illness and long-term disability to change the course of cultural history.
Main title:
Two-way mirror : the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Fiona Sampson.
Author:
Sampson, Fiona, author
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2022.
Collation:
336 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781788162081 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
821.8821.8 SAMP
Language:
English
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BRN:
1930478
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