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Two-way mirror : the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Fiona Sampson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sampson, Fiona, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.
- Poets, English--19th century--Biography.
- Poets, English.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
- Summary:
- "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 in self-invention. Born into an age when women could neither own property once married nor vote, Barrett Browning seized control of her private income, overcame long-term illness, eloped to revolutionary Italy with Browning, and achieved lasting literary fame. A 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. The first biography of Barrett Browning in more than three decades, with unique access to the poet's abundant correspondence, Two-Way Mirror holds up a mirror to the woman, her art, and the art of biography itself"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Book 1 How (not) to belong
- Opening Frame
- Book 2 How to be ill
- Second Frame
- Book 3 How not to love
- Third Frame
- Book 4 How to manage change
- Fourth Frame
- Book 5 How to lose your way
- Tain
- Book 6 How to be dutiful
- Sixth Frame
- Book 7 How to desire
- Seventh Frame
- Book 8 How to be autonomous
- Eighth Frame
- Book 9 How to lose a body
- Closing Frame.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-304) and index.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of: 9781788162074 Sampson, Fiona. London : Profile Books Ltd., 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781324002956
- 1324002956
- OCLC:
- 1196172907
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