Two-Way Mirror

The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two-Way Mirror
Fiona Sampson
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Paperback
h198 x 128mm - 336pg
24 Feb 2022 UK
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9781788162081
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' How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. ' Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure, whose extraordinary life is a study in self-invention. Born into an age when women could neither vote nor own property once married, Barrett Browning seized control of her private income, overcame long term illness and disability, eloped to revolutionary Italy with Robert Browning - and achieved lasting fame as a poet. Feminist icon, political activist and international literary superstar, she inspired writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf. This book holds up a mirror to the woman, her art, and the art of biography itself.
Praise for In Search of Mary Shelley:Gripping, vivid . . . a fascinating book * The Times * Daringly swift and enjoyably irreverent * Observer * If we get another literary biography [this year] as astute and full of feeling as this one, we shall be lucky * Sunday Times * Frankenstein might be thrilling, but I found this story of its creator just as much of a page turner * Daily Mail *
Fiona Sampson is a prize-winning poet and writer, published in thirty-seven languages, who has received international awards in the US, India, Macedonia, Albania and Bosnia. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Wordsworth Trust and the English Association, she' s published twenty-seven books, including the internationally acclaimed In Search of Mary Shelley. She' s received an MBE for Services to Literature, the Newdigate Prize, Cholmondeley Award, Hawthornden Fellowship, and multiple awards from the Arts Councils of England and of Wales, Society of Authors, Poetry Book Society and Arts and Humanities Research Council. Fiona is also a broadcaster and newspaper critic, librettist and literary translator.
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ISBN-13: 9781788162081
Published: 24 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 128mm
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 280g
Pages: 336

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