by Margaret Forster · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140147612
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«Lady's Maid» is the historical novel by Margaret Forster, published by Penguin in paperback (544 pages, in English).
Set in 1844, the plot follows Elizabeth Wilson, a reserved young woman who arrives at 50 Wimpole Street, London, to serve as lady's maid to the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Through her eyes, Victorian domestic life and the romance between her mistress and Robert Browning unfold, with the limitations imposed on women of the era.
The novel was originally published in 1990; the present Penguin edition is from June 1991.
For readers of historical fiction and Victorian literature, with an interest in Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the female voices of nineteenth-century England.
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.
