{"product_id":"twoway-mirror-9781324002956","title":"TwoWay Mirror","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Plutarch Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A \"nuanced and insightful\" (\u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e) portrait of Britain’s most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This superb biography rescues Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s work from the dustbin of Victorian sentimentality to which her poems have been wrongly consigned for the better part of a century. Peeling back layers of myth, misogyny and critical dismissal, Fiona Sampson allows us to see anew an extraordinary woman whose crowning book-length poem, \u003cem\u003eAurora Leigh\u003c\/em\u003e, traces, for the first time in our language, the way a woman became a writer…Sampson’s engaging, deeply intelligent book, which at last gives Barrett Browning her due, is a profound inquiry, a vindication, and a delight.\" -- Mark Doty, author of What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life\u003cbr\u003e\"Fiona Sampson’s vivid new biography gives us Elizabeth Barrett Browning as busy and ambitious rather than a swooning sleeping beauty…Sampson’s biography consciously mirrors her subject’s masterpiece, but then biography, she suggests, is itself a mirror that both reveals and distorts its subject…[B]eautifully told. It is high time that Elizabeth Barrett Browning and \u003cem\u003eAurora Leigh\u003c\/em\u003e were once again household names.\" -- Frances Wilson - Daily Mail\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003cem\u003eTwo-Way Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e] restores [Barrett Browning] to her proper place as one of the leading voices of the Victorian era…This book is an empathetic—and much-needed—reassessment which tells a fascinating story.\" -- Lucasta Miller - Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\"Sampson’s passionate and exacting biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a surprisingly compact volume, a bristling lyric sandwich of philosophy and action. It is also a page-turner.\" -- Martina Evans - Irish Times","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529092178263,"sku":"9781324002956","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781324002956.jpg?v=1731874265","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/twoway-mirror-9781324002956","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}