Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The love affair between two of the Victorian era's most famous poets is one of passion, tragedy, illness, and ultimately, endurance. Collected here for the first time in print are their 573 love letters, which capture their courtship, their blossoming love, and their forbidden marriage. The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning allows readers to immerse themselves in...

'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways' Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet of passion, wit and conscience. She was also a woman who wrote to speak the truth about everything she knew - and she knew just what it was like to be a thinking woman in a society that wanted women to be weak. The...

The text is accompanied by both explanatory annotations and textual notes. Aurora Leigh is enriched with "Backgrounds and Contexts," featuring thirty letters or letter excerpts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. These documents trace the book's inception, evolution, and publication. Seven contemporary documents on the "woman question," prostitution, socialism, and poetic theory place the text historically. "Criticism" collects twenty-five...