"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic
heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often
overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the
melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure whose extraordinary life
is an electrifying study in self-invention. Born in 1806, Barrett
Browning lived in an age when women could not attend a university,
own property after marriage, or vote. And yet she seized control of
her private income, defied chronic illness and disability, became
an advocate for the revolutionary Italy to which she eloped, and
changed the course of cultural history. Her late-in-life verse
novel masterpiece, Aurora Leigh, reveals both the brilliance and
originality of her mind, as well as the challenges of being a woman
writer in the Victorian era. A feminist icon, high-profile activist
for the abolition of slavery, and international literary superstar,
Barrett Browning inspired writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson,
George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf.
Two-Way Mirror is the first biography of Barrett Browning in more
than three decades. With unique access to the poet’s abundant
correspondence, “astute, thoughtful, and wide-ranging guide”
(Times [UK]) Fiona Sampson holds up a mirror to the woman, her art,
and the art of biography itself.
General
| Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2024 |
| Authors: |
Fiona Sampson
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| Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-07464-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-324-07464-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781324074649 |
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