Summary
This is the most exciting sort of biography to read, or to write - the myth-dispelling biography which overturns an old story, and does so most convincingly.
This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street. The author traces her life from her early childhood and adolescence and explores her marri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784872441 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178487244X |
| Author: | Margaret Forster |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 25mm |
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This is the most exciting sort of biography to read, or to write: the myth-dispelling biography which overturns an old story, and does so most convincingly’
This is the most exciting sort of biography to read, or to write: the myth-dispelling biography which overturns an old story, and does so most convincingly’ * New Statesman *
If it is a test of a good biography to send the reader hot-foot to the subject’s works, Margaret Forster’s has succeeded triumphantly * The Times *
About The Author
Margaret Forster
Born in Carlisle, Margaret Forster was the author of many successful and acclaimed novels, including Have the Men Had Enough?, Lady’s Maid, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, Is There Anything You Want? , Keeping the World Away, Over and The Unknown Bridesmaid. She also wrote bestselling memoirs - Hidden Lives, Precious Lives and, most recently, My Life in Houses - and biographies. She was married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies and lived in London and the Lake District. She died in February 2016, just before her last novel, How to Measure a Cow, was published.
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