The Courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett

by Daniel Karlin

Book Overview

In 1846 Elizabeth Barrett rose from an invalid's bed to elope to Italy with Robert Browning. The secret courtship of the two poets--their long correspondence and their meetings in the shadow of Elizabeth's despotic and jealous father--has become one of the most famous and best-documented Victorian romances.
The powerful myth of chivalrous rescue and miraculous recovery is the subject of Daniel Karlin's exciting and imaginative book. He gives a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192820397
• ISBN13: 9780192820396
• Release Date: August 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"