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Aurora Leigh

Aurora Leigh( )
Author: Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Reynolds, Margaret
Series title:Norton Critical Editions Ser.
ISBN:978-0-393-96298-7
Publication Date:Jan 2010
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $41.95
Book Description:

This Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds' variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.

Book Details
Pages:584
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.208 x 21.336 x 3.302 cm
Book Weight:0.482 Kilograms
Author Biography
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (Author)
Elizabeth Barrett was born in Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England, in 1806. Most of her childhood was spent on her father's estate, reading the classics and writing poetry. An injury to her spine when she was fifteen, the shock of her brother's death by drowning in 1840 and an ogre-like father made her life dark. But she read and wrote, and no little volume of verse ever produced a richer return than her Poems of 1844. Robert Browning read the poems, liked them, and came to her rescue like Prince Charming in the fairy story. Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning were married on September 12, 1846.

Barrett Browning's enduring fame has rested on two works-Poems (1850), containing Sonnets from the Portuguese, and Aurora Leigh (1857). The former is a celebration of woman as man's other half and the latter is a celebration of woman's potential to stand on her own. During the Edwardian and later periods, it was Sonnets from the Portuguese that embodied Barrett Browning. Since the rise of feminism, it has been Aurora Leigh. More recently, a third side of Barrett Browning has been revealed: the incisive critical and political commentator, seen in her letters.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning died in Florence, Italy, in 1861.

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