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    Aurora Leigh
    Aurora Leigh
    Aurora Leigh
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    Aurora Leigh

    By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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    Aurora Leigh is a novel in nine books written in the form of epic poems. The poem is written in blank verse. The first book tells about Aurora's childhood and youth, while the rest drive her into a complicated love triangle. She develops love-hate relations with a cousin who is to inherit her family estate and who wants to marry a poor girl Marian, rather out of pity, than love. As the plot evolves, Aurora, Romney, and Marion become victims of different schemes, wrongful accusations, and lies until they finally learn to help each other and realize their true feelings.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 19, 2019
    ISBN4057664091765
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    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) was an English poet. The daughter of a wealthy family—her father made his fortune as a slave owner in Jamaica, while her mother’s family owned and operated sugar plantations, mills, and ships—Browning eventually became an abolitionist and advocate for child labor laws. Her marriage to the prominent Victorian poet Robert Browning caused the final break between Browning and her family, after which she moved to Italy and lived there with Robert for the rest of her life. She began writing poems at a young age, finding success with the 1844 publication of Poems. Browning went on to be recognized as one of the foremost poets of early Victorian England, influencing such writers as Edgar Allen Poe and Emily Dickinson. She is most famous for her Sonnets from the Portuguese, a collection of 44 love poems published in 1850, and Aurora Leigh, an 1856 epic poem described by leading Victorian critic John Ruskin as the greatest long poem written in the nineteenth century. Browning suffered from numerous illnesses throughout her life, eventually succumbing in Florence at the age of 55.

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