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Robert Browning : a life after death 🔍
Neville-Sington, Pamela Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited, London, England, 2004
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"When his beloved wife died in 1861, Robert Browning's world changed forever. He left Italy, his home for the last fifteen years (the whole of his married life) and returned to London with his career in tatters and a twelve-year-old son who spoke better Italian than English. Henry James said of Browning that there would be 'no more interesting chapter of his biography than that of his return from his long Italian absence, stricken and lonely ... to address himself to a future indefinite and obscure'. Pamela Neville-Sington has taken her cue from the novelist and begins her life of Robert Browning with the death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning." "After her death Browning knew he had to break free from Elizabeth's influence to find a way to survive - to live, possibly to love, and to write - without her. He sought to put his marriage behind him, yet the desire to cling to her memory - and to preserve the myth surrounding their life together - was overwhelming. As the story unfolds, we witness Browning's struggle to raise young Pen alone and at the same time to rediscover his poetic inspiration. We also see a lonely man drawn dangerously close to three very different women - the sensitive Julia Wedgwood, the adoring American Katharine Bronson, and the impetuous Louisa, Lady Ashburton."--Jacket.
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Pamela Neville-Sington
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Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Alternative edition
United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
Alternative edition
LONDON, Unknown
Alternative edition
August 1, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-326) and index.
Alternative description
<p>Robert Browning spent fifteen years married to fellow poet Elizabeth Barrett. He was 49 when Elizabeth died, and it is her death that is the starting point of this new biography. The central drama of Browning’s life was the conflict between his need to put his marriage behind him, and his overwhelming desire to cling to his wife’s memory and preserve the literary myth of their marriage. But this was also a time when the poetic inspiration that had for years eluded him began to flourish once more as Browning sought to live, and possibly love, again. Pamela Neville-Sington is the author of the highly praised <i>Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman.</i></p>
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On a June day in 1862 Robert Browning stood before 19 Warwick Crescent, a typical London house situated on a picturesque stretch of the Grand Junction Canal, as men unpacked the massive crates which had been sitting all those months in Florence gathering dust.
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A biography of one of the great English poets, inspired by his relationship with Elizabeth Barrett.
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xii, 340 p., [8] p. of plates : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-326) and index
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2023-06-28
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