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Two-Way Mirror - The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Paperback, Main)
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Two-Way Mirror - The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R251
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Shortlisted for the 2022 Plutarch Award A Washington Post 2021
Non-Fiction Book of the Year New York Times Review of Books
Editors' Choice Non-Fiction Title Longlisted for the 2022 PEN /
Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography A Sunday Times Best
Paperback of 2022 'Brilliant, heart-stopping ... reads like a
thriller, a memoir and a provocative piece of literary fiction all
at the same time ... magical and compelling' Washington Post '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 vividly written
biography, the first full study for over thirty years, 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. It holds up a mirror to the woman, her art - and
the art of biography itself.
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