Lady's Maid
of Margaret Forster
Description
Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a ladyâs maid to the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistressâs gaiety and sharp intelligence, the power of her poetry, and her deep emotional need. It is a strange intimacy that will last sixteen years.It is Lily who smuggles Miss Barrett out of the gloomy Wimpole Street house, witnesses her secret wedding to Robert Browning in an empty church, and flees with them to threadbare lodgings and the heat, light, and colors of Italy. As housekeeper, nursemaid, companion, and confidante, Lily is with Elizabeth in every crisis â birth, bereavement, travel, literary triumph. As her devotion turns almost to obsession, Lily forgets her own fleeting loneliness. But when Lilyâs own affairs take a dramatic turn, she comes to expect the loyalty from Elizabeth that she herself has always given.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 576 pages
- Publisher Ballantine Books
- Publication Date May 15th 2007
- First Publication 10/30/90
- Language English
- ISBN 9780345497437
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
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