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The Rebellion of a Dutiful Daughter
The Conflicted Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emer O'Sullivan
A brilliantly revisionist biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning – poet, essayist, critic, dissenter, wife, sister and daughter
Elizabeth Barrett Browning may be best known today for her love sonnets and for her romance with Robert Browning, but in her time she was more celebrated than her husband, considered even the greatest poet of the nineteenth century.
Born into a family that owned slave plantations, she would become an abolitionist, anticolonialist and republican. She wrote about child labour and runaway slaves – and in her verse novel Aurora Leigh created a masterpiece of feminist writing decades ahead of its time.
Yet privately she submitted for decades to her father’s oppressive will. Finally escaping, she married in secret and moved abroad, finding in her husband someone who would devote himself to her and her work.
In The Rebellion of a Dutiful Daughter, Emer O’Sullivan brilliantly charts the personal, political and artistic flowering of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, placing the writer in her rightful position at the forefront of Victorian culture.
Emer O'Sullivan graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and has completed an MA in Life Writing and a PhD in Virginia Woolf's literature at the University of East Anglia, where she also lectured in English Literature. She is the author of The Fall of the House of Wilde: Oscar Wilde and his Family. She lives in London.
26 October 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526665317 / £20.00
EXPORT TPB / 9781526665348 / £14.00
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Max Leonard is an author and publisher. He received degrees in English and French from Oxford University and has a Masters in Film Studies from Sussex University. He writes about mountains, cycling and travel; his previous books include Higher Calling, Bunker Research and Lantern Rouge. He currently serves as publisher and creative director of Isola Press. He lives in London.
09 November 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526631190 / £20.00
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28 November 2023
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09 November 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526606921 / £25.00
EBOOK / 9781526606945 / £17.50
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ANZ Pub Date 01 February 2024
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