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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 1806-1861 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 1806-1861 Fiction Browning, Robert 1812-1889 Browning, Robert 1812-1889 Fiction Great Britain History 19th century Fiction Man-woman relationship Fiction Poètes Romans, nouvelles, etc Wilson, Elizabeth 1820-1902 Fiction Women household employees Fiction Women poets FictionMcNeal, Laura
Summary: "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."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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Summary: Moser spotlights Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her struggle for love against all odds. Long confined by baffling ailments, Elizabeth dispels her gloom through Bible meditation, prayer, and writing. But as she and a kind gentleman exchange letters in 1845, his fondness for her poetry takes an unexpected turn--inspiring her secret sonnets and dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2009
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Summary: Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a lady’s maid to the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistress’s gaiety and sharp intelligence, the power of her poetry, and her deep emotional need. It is a strange intimacy that will last sixteen years. It is Lily who smuggles Miss...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fawcett Columbine 1992