Elizabeth Barrett Browning

by ElizabethBarrettBrowning (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $3.52

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  Paperback
  1998

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  This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street. The author traces her life from her early childhood and adolescence and explores her marriage. She draws a picture of early Victorian family life and aims to show that Elizabeth was a considerable and dedicated poet, self-willed, witty and courageous. Forster has also edited the companion volume Selected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and is author of several other biographies.

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  Hardcover
  1988

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  This volume of poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning comprises a selection of her work, and all the poems here appear in their first and original versions. The poems range from those written when she was 20, to the last poem which she wrote just before her death in 1861 at the age of 55. They cover a wide span of topics with examples of her love poetry, including the whole Sonnets from the Portuguese , examples of her political verse - including her views on Italian unification in Casa Guidi Windows , as well as sections from Aurora Leigh , her plea for the social, sexual and intellectual emancipation of women. This collection is designed to illustrate her versatility, her development and her contribution to modern poetry and is intended to be a companion volume to Margaret Forster's new biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Margaret Forster is author of three other biographical works: The Rash Adventurer (Bonnie Prince Charlie), Memoirs of a Victorian Gentleman (William Makepeace Thackeray) and Significant Sisters (a study of several 19th century feminists).