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Robert Browning - A Life After Death (Hardcover)
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Robert Browning - A Life After Death (Hardcover)
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Robert Browning spent fifteen years married to a fellow poet,
Elizabeth Barrett. It was a good marriage but Pamela
Neville-Sington shows how their union proved a disaster for
Browning's literary career. Robert was less well-known than
Elizabeth when they married but he hoped he'd produce his best work
with his wife and Muse by his side. However, although Elizabeth
encouraged her husband's ambition, she became his Siren rather than
Muse - disabling him with her song. Browning was forty-nine when
Elizabeth died, and this new biography takes her death as its
starting point.;The central drama of Browning's life was the
conflict between a need to put his marriage behind him (he had a
young son, Pen, to bring up) and the overwhelming desire to cling
to his wife's memory and preserve the literary myth of their
marriage.While wrestling with this situation, Browning was drawn to
three very different women - sensitive Julia Wedgwood, impetuous
Lady Ashburton and the rich American Katherine Bronson. Pamela
Neville-Sington's unique approach has produced an unusually
insightful biography. Browning's life was one of love, loss, death
and redemption, as well as a man's compelling struggle to overcome
grief and begin his artistic life anew.
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