Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning - Hardcover

Markus, Julia

 
9780679416029: Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679416021 ISBN 13: 9780679416029
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1995

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A dual biography of two great nineteenth-century British poets discusses their courtship, marriage, and literary work in terms of the mores, institutions, and events of the Victorian era. 12,500 first printing.

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Julia Markus graduated from Boston University and received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Robert Browning was the subject of her doctoral thesis, and she has written extensively on both Brownings. She served for eight years on the Board of Directors of the Browning Institute. Ms. Markus is the Director of Creative Writing at Hofstra University. She is the author of four novels: Uncle, which won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Award, American Rose. Friends Along the Way, and A Change of' Luck. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Smithsonian and The New York Times. She lives in Connecticut and New York City and is at work on a novel.

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nd brilliant work of biography. The story of two great English poets, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, whose work was immediately recognized and adored by their contemporaries, whose courtship ranks with the great love stories of all time -- and in whose marriage romance was not merely sustained but intensified.

We enter their story through the sealed Victorian world of the Barretts of Wimpole Street: Elizabeth, at thirty-nine, a poet of international fame, a child prodigy who had grown to be a middle-aged spinster, a woman for whom romantic love seemed not to be possible, confined by illness, morphine, and the tyranny of her father, scion of rich Jamaican slaveholders, rum and sugar traders.

It is to this fortress that Robert Browning, already an admired young poet and playwright, already a devotee of Elizabeth's, lays siege. ("I love your verses," he had written Elizabeth in his first letter to her, long before they met. "I love your verses with all my

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Verlag
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679416021
ISBN 13 
9780679416029
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