Aurora Leigh and Other Poems - Softcover

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0704338203 ISBN 13: 9780704338203

Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

A reissue of Browning's novel in verse that describes Aurora's successful rebellion against Victorian convention and her right to pursue her own career as a writer as well as be in love.

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Review:

"Her ardour and abundance, her brilliant descriptive powers, her shrewd and caustic humour infect us with her own enthusiasm. We laugh, we protest, we complain - it is absurd, it is impossible, we cannot tolerate this exaggeration a moment longer - but, nevertheless, we read to the end enthralled. What more can an author ask?"
--Virginia Woolf

From the Back Cover:

Wrote Virginia Woolf of Aurora Leigh in 1931. 'We laugh, we protest, we complain - it is absurd, it is impossible, we cannot tolerate this exaggeration a moment longer - but, nevertheless, we read to the end enthralled. What more can an author ask?' Aurora Leigh (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. In addition to Aurora Leigh, this volume contains poetry from the several volumes of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's published poetry from 1826 to 1862, including The Cry of the Children (1843), Casa Guidi Windows (1851) and the British Library manuscript text of the 'Sonnets from the Portuguese' which records her courtship with Robert Browning.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0704338203
• ISBN 13: 9780704338203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416