![]() Surely her lack of regular exercise and small appetite did not keep her physically healthy. Seven years later the breaking of a blood vessel in the chest left her with a weakened constitution and a chronic cough.” It may also have been a combination of these weakened lungs (possibly pulmonary T.B.) and depression (she was terribly sensitive to everything, personal and political, that happened around her). According to one source, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, “At the age of fifteen she had injured her spine when she was attempting to saddle her pony. (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”) had few companions, because for much of her life she remained an invalid in terrible health, the causes of which remain somewhat ambiguous. In a third-person narrative, the novel centers primarily on the maid and the women’s relationship.Į.B.B. ![]() ![]() To this novel, nevertheless he was one of Elizabeth B. ![]() Book review: Margaret Forster's *Lady's Maid*Īfter recently reading (and reviewing) Shaggy Muses, which included Flush, Elizabeth Barrett (Browning’s) spaniel dog, reading Lady's Maid, a novel about the poet (1806 – 1861) and her maid, Wilson, was doubly engaging. ![]()
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