Aurora Leigh

Name: Aurora Leigh
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
ISBN: 9780008128951

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Narrator: Diana Quick

Abridged: 2 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 03/26/2015

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Historical Fiction, Women, Family Life, Romance, Poetry

Synopsis

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s classic poem, read by Diana Quick. Written in blank verse, Aurora Leigh is Browning’s self-styled ‘novel in verse’, a first-person narration of the lives of Marian Erle and the eponymous Aurora. Travelling across Florence, London, and Paris, and playing off the works of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël and George Sand, Aurora Leigh is one of the greatest poems of the nineteenth century.

About Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) is generally considered the greatest of English poetesses. She was well educated for a woman of her time at home, being confined to bed by a lung complaint, possibly tuberculosis. The appearance of her Poems in 1844 attracted the attention of Robert Browning, who courted her in secret before eloping with her to Italy. There Elizabeth’s health improved and she threw herself into politics, becoming a pioneer of early liberal movements.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs

What do you say to someone who tells you to stop being yourself? You love him and you want to marry him, and he comes out with that. He tells you to stop writing poetry; it’s something women can’t do well apparently, and he tells you to give it up. Essentially, he tells you to stop being you. Here i......more

Goodreads review by Ruby

I did very much enjoy this -- especially the first two books. Aurora Leigh grows into such a strong, enlivened character. Barrett Browning shows that she is not just intellectually equal, but intellectually superior to the men in her life, and her moral/philosophical beliefs (which are kind of Stoic......more

Goodreads review by Katie

Maybe 4.5. I really enjoyed this, possibly more than I expected to. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's writing is wonderful, and I love how she explores her character's life as a poet and issues around gender. I can't decide how I feel about the ending, however.......more