TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sampson,Fiona
TI  - Two-way mirror: the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
SN  - 9781788162074 (hbk.) :
AV  - PR4193 
U1  - 920 BRO 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Profile Books
KW  - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,
KW  - Women poets, English
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Poets, English
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N2  - '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
ER  -