Lady's Maid
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Lady's Maid. Title: Lady's Maid. Weight: 0.89 lbs. Number of Pages: 553. ISBN10: 0345497430. Publication Date: 2007-05-15. Publisher: Ballantine Books. Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE ) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title: Lady's Maid ISBN13: 9780345497437 ISBN10: 0345497430 Author: Forster, Margaret (Author) Description: 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 Reviewabsorbing 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 Chronicleextremely Readable The Author's Sense Of The Nineteenth Century Seems Innate --The New Yorkerhighly Recommended An Engrossing Novel Of The Colorful Browning M Nage --Library Journaldelightful Entertaining --Vogue In Forster's Historically Authentic Novel, Elizabeth Wilson, Elizabeth Barrett's Maid And Confidante, Describes Her Daily Experiences, Her Impressions Of The Large Household And, Especially, Her Sickly But Charismatic Mistress's Relationship With Mr Browning Binding: Paperback, Paperback Publisher: Ballantine Books Publication Date: 2007-05-15 Weight: 0.89 lbs Dimensions: 1.26'' H x 7.9'' L x 5.28'' W Number of Pages: 553 Language: English
