by Margaret Forster · Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596122929
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«Die Dienerin» is the historical novel by Margaret Forster, published by Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt in paperback (672 pages, in German).
Set in the Victorian era, the novel follows the personal maid of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. From the perspective of the servant class, it addresses the courtship and marriage of the poetess with Robert Browning, travels through Europe, and tensions between class, duty, and private life.
Translation by Dietlind Kaiser from the English Lady's Maid (1990), with an afterword by the author. Corresponds to number 12292 of the Fischer series.
For readers of Victorian fiction, especially those interested in Elizabeth Barrett Browning and domestic life of the era.
Margaret Forster was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and critic, best known for the 1965 novel Georgy Girl, made into a successful film of the same name, which inspired a hit song by The Seekers. Other successes were a 2003 novel, Diary of an Ordinary Woman, biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her memoirs Hidden Lives and Precious Lives.
