Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/04/2005
ISBN: 9780099478485
Length: 544 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm
Weight: 373g
RRP: £9.99
London 1844, and a shy young woman has arrived to take up a new position in the grandeur of No. 50, Wimpole Street. Subtly and compellingly, Lady's Maid gives voice to Elizabeth Wilson's untold story, her complex relationship with her mistress, Elizabeth Barrett, and her dramatic role in the most famous elopement in history.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 07/04/2005
ISBN: 9780099478485
Length: 544 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm
Weight: 373g
RRP: £9.99
From the viewpoint of Elizabeth Wilson... lady's maid, Margaret Forster retells the love story of Robert and Elizabeth Browning...Enthralling
Compulsively readable... at each climax of the story, from the Browning's runaway romance to her own equally compromised and complicated marriage, the lady's maid speaks directly and at the last most movingly
Passion, melodrama, pathos - and a happy ending. What more can you ask for?
Movingly told... Wilson's pleasures, losses and disappointments in love are complicated and excellently understated, imagined as a contrast to the grand passions she has to serve
Accomplished, beautifully written... packed with discreet domestic detail