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⚡️Book Title : Lady's Maid
⚡Book Author : Margaret Forster
⚡Page : 576 pages
⚡Published May 15th 2007 by Ballantine Books (first published 1990)
Lady's Maid - Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a ladys maid to the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistresss 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 birth, bereavement, travel, literary triumph. As her devotion turns almost to obsession, Lily forgets her own fleeting loneliness. But when Lilys own affairs take a dramatic turn, she comes to expect the loyalty from Elizabeth that she herself has always given.
Lady's Maid
Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a ladys maid to the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistresss 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 birth, bereavement, travel, literary triumph. As her devotion turns almost to obsession, Lily forgets her own fleeting loneliness. But when Lilys own affairs take a dramatic turn, she comes to expect the loyalty from Elizabeth that she herself has always given.
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