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It is universally admitted that the family from which the subject of this memoir claims descent is one of the greatest antiquity.
I am loving this book even though I‘m not a ‘dog‘ person!
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I love these old books!

Flush is the biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog. But since Flush is a dog, his life is tightly knotted with Elizabeth's. So we learn about both, especially since Woolf includes pictures and sources. We learn about life in England during the Victorian era, about good dog breeds and mutts, about men and women and how spaniels are called spaniels. Lovely, even though many things Flush observes isn't.

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Flush was Elisabeth Barrett Browning‘s English cocker spaniel. We get the story of who Flush ended up with her, their life together and the changes that where to happen with Miss Barrett being courted by Mr Browning and them getting married.

I don‘t think I‘ve ever read a book where the animal have seemed so alive, at times I forgot that the story was told by a dog.

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I want to see if I can finish To the River and if I do I want to start Islands of Abandonment

I‘m just about to start Flush

I want to read Jane and Prudence

I read volume 1 of Orange yesterday and want to read volumes 2 and 3 this week.

Have a few days holiday. On the left is my holiday book stack and on the right is my husband‘s. We will see if we manage to get through them 📚

#ReadWithMrBook #NarratedByAnimal

What a lovely book (that I didn‘t even know existed!) about a Spaniel named Flush, and the trials and tribulations of his life spent with, first, Elizabeth Barrett [Browning], and then with both she and her husband, Robert Browning. I found myself sympathizing rather too much with Flush‘s (sometimes) sadness, so evocative is the writing of Woolf. When Flush is taken from his country life with Miss Mitford and ⬇️

A robust #bookreport from a lazy holiday week! Remote locations, long drives, and no schedule really ups my reading time. Managed to knock off a few #tob and #mounttbr titles. 🙂
Highlight was 99 Stories about God.
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I finished Between the Acts and was feeling smug at having read all of Woolf's novels. Then discovered this is also considered one of her works of fiction. So made a a quick Amazon Kindle purchase. I WILL finish all her novels before 2020, I will!

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I so enjoyed reading Flush—it‘s very readable (unlike some of her more stream-of-consciousness fiction). I liked also getting the beauty of Woolf‘s descriptions along with the biographical information about Elizabeth Barrett‘s and Robert Browning‘s courtship and early marriage. Plus, through a dog‘s unique perspective!

Spent some time updating my owned books on GoodReads because this find came in the mail. #dogsoflitsy

#marchinbooks #bookswithpets to be read.

8/ 26 books read #ReadingWomenChallenge

Woolf‘s birthday is as good day as any to read this biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning‘s cocker spaniel.

Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog.

She wrote in a letter ‘I was so tired after the Waves, that I lay in the garden and read the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn‘t resist making him a Life‘. #dogdays #anditsaugust

If this munchkin was stolen and my fiancé told me not to empower gangsters by paying the ransom, I would no longer have a fiancé. Mr. Browning is not scoring any points with me.

Happy National Puppy Day from Kali and I! 🐶

#nationalpuppyday #dogbooks #persephonebooks #kittenlitten

I would be lying if I said I didn't buy Persphones for the beautiful endpapers. #readjanuary

For this #FunFridayPhoto I'm picking two of my favorite books, both "fictional biographies", and both written by Virginia Woolf.

FLUSH is an imagined biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel. ORLANDO is the biography of a character inspired by Vita Sackville-West.
#biography #virginiawoolf #persephonebooks

Ah fall weather... I came down with a cold today 🤒 BUT I'm going to see my very first opera on Friday so I'm happy! So excited! #macbeth

On one level, this is a pseudo-biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, with information coming from the poet's letters and other writings. On another, the book is a critique of British and Italian society in the inter-war period. Due to his canine status, and the way Woolf writes his internal monologues, Flush is a continual foreigner in his world. This canine naïveté allows the author to comment on socioeconomic and class divides.