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Aurora leigh

Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of superb satiric portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh, the Christian socialist; Lord Howe, the amateur radical; Sir Blaise Delorme, theostentatious Roman Catholic; and the unscrupulous society beauty Lady Waldemar. However, the dominant presence in the work i.

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  • "Poems of Mrs. Browning"@en
  • "E.B. Browning's Aurora Leigh etc"@en
  • "Poems by Mrs. Browning"@en
  • "Poems by Mrs. Browning"

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  • "Aurora Leigh is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a richly detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of superb satiric portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh, the Christian socialist; Lord Howe, the amateur radical; Sir Blaise Delorme, theostentatious Roman Catholic; and the unscrupulous society beauty Lady Waldemar. However, the dominant presence in the work i."@en
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "Aurora Leigh is an aspiring poet of independent spirit, rebelling against the stifling constraints of Victorian middle-class society and struggling for self expression. This story exposes the hypocrisy and repressive social attitudes of Victorian England."@en
  • ""Aurora Leigh" is an example of the mid-19th-century poem of contemporary life. This verse-novel is a detailed representation of the early Victorian age. The social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of satiric portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh, the Christian socialist; Lord Howe, the amateur radical; Sir Blaise Delorme, the ostentatious Roman Catholic; and the unscrupulous society beauty Lady Waldemar. However, the dominant presence in the work is the narrator, Aurora Leigh herself. From early years in Italy and adolescence in the West Country to the vocational choices, creative struggles, and emotional entanglements of her first decade of adult life, Aurora Leigh develops her ideas on art, love, God, the Woman Question, and society."
  • ""This is a reissue of Browning's novel in verse that describes Aurora's successful rebellion against Victorian convention, and her right to pursue a career as a writer and be in love.""
  • "Aurora Leigh (1856) is an epic/novel poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the name of its heroine. The poem is written in blank verse and encompasses nine books (the woman's number, the number of the prophetic books of the Sibyl). It is a first person narration, from the point of view of Aurora; its other heroine, Marian Erle, is an abused self-taught child of itinerant parents. The poem is set in Florence, Malvern, London, and Paris. She uses her knowledge of Hebrew and Greek, while also playing off modern novels, such as Corinne ou l'Italie by Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, Jane Eyre by Ch."@en

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  • "Gilt edges (Binding)"@en
  • "Gilt edges (Binding)"
  • "Gold stamped cloth (Binding)"@en
  • "Books"
  • "Poezja angielska"
  • "Novels in verse"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • ""Books in blue and gold" (Imitative binding style)"@en
  • "Poetry"
  • "Blind stamped cloth (Binding)"@en
  • "Fore-edge paintings (Binding)"@en
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  • "Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)"
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  • "Specimens"
  • "Pictorial works"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Poems"
  • "Poems"@en
  • "Centerpieces (Designs) (Binding)"@en
  • "Grained cloth (Binding)"@en
  • "Translations"

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  • "Aurora leigh"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh : And other poems. Introd. by Cora Kaplan"
  • "Aurora Leigh : [a poem in nine books]"
  • "Aurora Leigh : [a poem in nine books]"@en
  • "[Aurora Leigh.]"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh, with other poems"
  • "Aurora Leigh. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh, and other p"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh : By Elizabeth Barret Browning. New ed. with bref. note by Algernon Charles Swinburne"
  • "Aurora Leigh, and other poems her novel in verse"
  • "[Aurora Leigh ... Twenty-second edition. [With a portrait.]]"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh & other poems"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh : her novel in verse, with other poems"
  • "Aurora Leigh, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning"
  • "Aurora Leigh and other poems"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh and other poems"
  • "Aurora Leigh with other poems : her novel in verse"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh : [in one volume]"
  • "Aurora Leigh, and other poems. From the last London ed"
  • "Aurora Leigh, and other poems. (The Oxford miniature edition.) [With a portrait.]"
  • "Aurora Leigh, and other poems. (The Oxford miniature edition.) [With a portrait.]"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh : (Mit d. Porträt der Verfasserin)"
  • "Aurora Leigh ... Seventeenth edition"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh : a discourse delivered in South Place Chapel, Finsbury"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh"
  • "Aurora Leigh / traduit de l'anglais"
  • "Aurora Leigh, her novel in verse and other poems"
  • "Aurora Leigh ... Copyright edition"
  • "Aurora Leigh : and other poems"
  • "Aurora Leigh with other poems"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh with other poems"
  • "Aurora Leigh, her novel in verse with other poems"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh, with other poems : her novel in verse"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh : the Fawcett lecture 1961-62"
  • "Aurora Leigh : her novel in verse : with other poems"
  • "Aurora Leigh : her novel in verse : with other poems"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh ... New edition"
  • "Aurora Leigh : [a poem]"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh [a poem in nine books]"
  • "Aurora Leigh ... Twentieth edition. [With a portrait.]"
  • "Aurora Leigh ... Eighteenth edition"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh : her novel in verse; and other poems"
  • "Aurora Leigh ... Thirteenth edition. [With a portrait.]"
  • "Aurora Leigh, and other poems"
  • "Aurora Leigh, and other poems"@en
  • "Aurora Leigh : a discourse delivered in South Place Chapel, Finsbury, E.C. [Browning, Eliz. Barrett]"

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