{"product_id":"two-way-mirror-the-life-of-elizabeth-barrett-browning","title":"Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning","description":"Finalist for the 2022 Plutarch Award\n\nA \"nuanced and insightful\" (New Statesman) portrait of Britain’s most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times.\n\"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.\" With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a thoroughly modern figure whose extraordinary life is an electrifying study in self-invention.\nBorn in 1806, Barrett Browning lived in an age when women could not attend a university, own property after marriage, or vote. And yet she seized control of her private income, defied chronic illness and disability, became an advocate for the revolutionary Italy to which she eloped, and changed the course of cultural history. Her late-in-life verse novel masterpiece, Aurora Leigh, reveals both the brilliance and originality of her mind, as well as the challenges of being a woman writer in the Victorian era. A feminist icon, high-profile activist for the abolition of slavery, and international literary superstar, Barrett Browning inspired writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf.\nTwo-Way Mirror is the first biography of Barrett Browning in more than three decades. With unique access to the poet’s abundant correspondence, “astute, thoughtful, and wide-ranging guide” (Times [UK]) Fiona Sampson holds up a mirror to the woman, her art, and the art of biography itself.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1324002956\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.1324002956.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Sampson, Fiona\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46645280932017,"sku":"RDV.1324002956.G","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/1324002956-0.jpg?v=1770571598","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/two-way-mirror-the-life-of-elizabeth-barrett-browning","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}