Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster

Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster

Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate observer.--Booklist

Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a lady's maid to the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistress' s gaiety and sharp intelligence, the power of her poetry, and her deep emotional need. It is a strange intimacy that will last sixteen years.

It is Lily who smuggles Miss Barrett out of the gloomy Wimpole Street house, witnesses her secret wedding to Robert Browning in an empty church, and flees with them to threadbare lodgings and the heat, light, and colors of Italy. As housekeeper, nursemaid, companion, and confidante, Lily is with Elizabeth in every crisis-birth, bereavement, travel, literary triumph. As her devotion turns almost to obsession, Lily forgets her own fleeting loneliness. But when Lily's own affairs take a dramatic turn, she comes to expect the loyalty from Elizabeth that she herself has always given.

Praise for Lady's Maid

A] wonderful novel . . . fully imagined and persuasive fiction.--The New York Times Book Review

Absorbing . . . heartbreaking . . . grips the reader's imagination on every page . . . Margaret] Forster paints a vivid picture of class, station, hypocrisy and survival in Victorian society.--San Francisco Chronicle

Extremely readable . . . The author's sense of the nineteenth century seems innate.--The New Yorker

Highly recommended . . . an engrossing novel of the colorful Browning m nage.--Library Journal

Delightful . . . entertaining.--Vogue

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ISBN 13	9780385417921
ISBN 10	0385417926
Titel	Lady's Maid
Autor	Margaret Forster
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Doubleday Books
Erscheinungsjahr	1991-02-01
Seitenanzahl	548
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.