02122cam a2200277 4500 553048346 TxAuBib 20210929120000.0 210212s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021004103 9781324002956 1324002956 (OCoLC)1196172907 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF GK8 OCLCO CMI HSA TxAuBib Sampson, Fiona. Two-way mirror : the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Fiona Sampson. First American edition. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021. xiv, 322 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-304) and index. A nuanced, comprehensive portrait of Britain's most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times. "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 a study in self-invention. Born into an age when women could neither own property once married nor vote, Barrett Browning seized control of her private income, overcame long-term illness, eloped to revolutionary Italy with Browning, and achieved lasting literary fame. A feminist icon, political activist, and international literary superstar, she inspired writers as diverse as Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf. The first biography of Barrett Browning in more than three decades, with unique access to the poet's abundant correspondence, Two-Way Mirror holds up a mirror to the woman, her art, and the art of biography itself. 20210929. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett 1806-1861. Poets, English 19th century Biography. Biographies.