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Book SynopsisWidely regarded as Barrett Browning's major work, Aurora Leigh is important both for its address to contemporary social issues, the woman question in particular, and for its bold experimentation with poetic form.
Trade Review“…Aurora Leigh, first published in 1856, has been expertly edited by Margaret Reynolds…It is beautifully and generously set out…It should be a compulsory purchase for all academic libraries, although Barrett Browning specialists and feminist scholars will undoubtedly want to invest in a copy of their own.” * Review of English Studies *
“Profound thanks from students and scholars of the works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning are due to Margaret Reynolds for her impressive critical and annotated edition of Aurora Leigh.” * Dalhousie Review *
“Margaret Reynolds’s long-awaited edition of Aurora Leigh lives up to expectations. It is a superb piece of work; meticulous in its editorial scholarship, thorough and helpful in its annotations, and with a closely argued introduction which takes issue with received readings whether they date from the poem’s time or ours. Reynolds’s work will be the standard edition for many years, and deserves to be the centrepiece of a complete critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poems.” * Times Literary Supplement *
