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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."