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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A nuanced, comprehensive portrait of Britain's most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times. "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 a study...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great nineteenth-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
The famous literary romance of Elizabeth Barret and Robert Browning given a funny and poignant slant - being told from the viewpoint of Elizabeth's adored spaniel, Flush, who bore his mistress's virtual imprisonment as an invalid in her father's house, and shared her dramatic flight abroad and subsequent happy married life.
Flush belonged to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and followed its mistress from her confinement in her father's house in Wimpole...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
What do a chamber pot, a famous poet, a family feud, and a long-ago suitor all have in common? Elizabeth Barrett Browning might have written about the length and breadth of love, but Abby Randolph has given up on all that, preferring to spend her time between her cluttered "needs work" apartment and an overcrowded antiques mart optimistically named Objects of Desire. Yet Abby can't help but wonder what happened to her earlier passionate self . ....
Author
Series
Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 136
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
Study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry and prose with biographical information.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Barrett is a published poet - and a virtual prisoner in her home. Blind family loyalty ties her to a tyrannical father who forbids his children to marry. Bedridden by chronic illness, she has resigned herself to simply existing. That is, until the letter arrives..."I love your verses with all my heart," writes Robert Browning, an admiring fellow poet. Soon Elizabeth discovers that Robert's love is not for her poetry alone.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A dramatic portrayal of the romance of the poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning that begins in London in 1845. The semi-invalid poetess finds her life transformed after falling in love with the famous poet and elopes with him against the wishes of her tyrannical father.
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