by Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Oxford University Press España, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780199552337
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«Aurora Leigh» is Elizabeth Barrett Browning's verse novel, published by Oxford University Press España, S.A. in paperback (416 pages, in English).
The work follows the poet Aurora Leigh from her childhood in Italy to her youth in England. In London she moves between the literary world, the poor districts and the upper classes, and reflects on art, love, faith and the female condition. Figures such as Romney Leigh, Lady Waldemar and Lord Howe also appear.
2008 reissue in the Oxford World's Classics series; annotated edition. Recommended reading age: 13 and up.
Aimed at students of English and readers of Victorian literature.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death. Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. Born in County Durham, the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from the age of eleven. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15, she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life. Later in life, she also developed lung problems, possibly tuberculosis. She took laudanum for the pain from an early age, which is likely to have contributed to her frail health.
