Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth B. Browning
"Aurora Leigh" (1856), by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is an epic about the development of a woman poet. Browning writes, "By the way, / The works of women are symbolical. / We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight...And sleep, and dream of something we are not, / But would be for your sake."
Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Overview: Aurora Leigh
"This novel in blank verse tells the life story of a fictional woman poet. Born in Italy of an Italian mother and an English father, Aurora, whose name means 'the dawn,' is an orphan by the age of thirteen."
"This novel in blank verse tells the life story of a fictional woman poet. Born in Italy of an Italian mother and an English father, Aurora, whose name means 'the dawn,' is an orphan by the age of thirteen."