Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sampson, Fiona

ISBN 10: 1788162072 / ISBN 13: 9781788162074

Published by Profile Books, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788162072
• ISBN 13: 9781788162074
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

New Statesman Recommends
Tablet recommendation for 2021
Daily Mail Book of the week

'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' Mail on Sunday

'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.