by PamelaNeville-Sington (Author)
Robert Browning spent fifteen years married to a fellow poet, Elizabeth Barrett. 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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 01 Sep 2005
ISBN 10: 0753818647
ISBN 13: 9780753818640
Book Overview: A unique biography in that it focuses on the poet's relationship with his wife and the traumatic years following her death Completely new look for paperback 'Has the superior quality of a Victorian novel' John Gross, Sunday Telegraph 'The division between the public man and the private poet is vividly delineated...Neville-Sington provides a strong account of his childhood, his family affections, his friendships, and the troubled, loyal relationship to his son' Robyn Marsack, The Herald 'A fresh narrative method, shrewd observation of character, a clear and witty style; it is often enlightening about the poet's habits, his friends and family, his intellectual pursuits' Daniel Karlin, TLS 'Neville-Sington explores the hidden drama and conflict of this 'life after death' both subtly and movingly' Sunday Times.
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