Books by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Aurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century, is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth century poem of contemporary life. It is an amazing verse novel which provides a panoramic view of the early Victorian age in London. The dominant presence in the work however, is the narrator Aurora Leigh, as she develops her ideas on art, love, God, the "Woman Question," and society.

This Norton Critical Edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 1856 verse-novel is based on Margaret Reynolds' variorum edition, which the British Academy awarded the 1993 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and which is reprinted here by special arrangement with the Ohio University Press.

When their correspondence began in 1845, Robert Browning was 32 years old and Elizabeth Barrett 38. This selection of letters from their two-year courtship concentrates on their developing love-relationship and, at the same time, reveals the interaction of two acute and inventive minds.