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Lady's Maid | Margaret Forster

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Margaret Forster wrote a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1989 and some years later wrote this novel about her Ladys Maid, Lily Wilson, based on the bare few facts that are known about her. Its a really deep imagining of what it was like to be in service in the 19th C and to have an intense and complicated relationship with your frail mistress. Great historical writing, slow moving and character driven - a bit depressing at times! ⬇️

Centique I would recommend it to @LeahBergen but I see on Goodreads you have already read it! PS I loved Forster‘s biography of Daphne Du Maurier too. 6d

CarolynM Sounds interesting! 6d

Centique @CarolynM makes me appreciate being born in this century once again! 6d

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andrew61 I'm in the middle of one of her novels at mo and I noticed she had written about daphne du maurier but this also looks interesting 5d

DrSabrinaMoldenReads I love books like this. Any other recommendations? 5d

Centique @DrSabrinaMoldenReads the only other book ive read from a servants POV was Longbourn by Jo Baker which is excellent. 5d

Centique @andrew61 I‘ll be interested to hear what you think of the one you‘re reading! I think this one could have been shortened a bit but maybe because she wrote the EBB bio she wanted to cover all the ups and downs. 5d

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Thanks 4d

DrSabrinaMoldenReads I have this but have not read it

Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury

LeahBergen I loved this book! 3d

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Anna40

Swan's Nest | Laura McNeal

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This is a “because of me not the book” bail. I‘m just not in the right mindset to get into the story and time it is set in.

dabbe #allhailthebail! #betterbooksahead 🙌🏻 10mo

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Teresereading

Flush | Virginia Woolf

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!
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

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Rhondareads

Swan's Nest | Laura McNeal

Historical fiction at its best.An unlikely love story between two poets.So romantic so well written.Thanks @AlgonquinBooks for my copy publishing 3-24

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Jen2

Flush: A Biography | Virginia Woolf

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I love these old books!

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Jari-chan

Flush | Virginia Woolf

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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.

#doublespin @TheAromaofBooks

Liz_M @AnneCecilie also just reviewed this! It must be having a European moment. 😊 2y

Jari-chan @Liz_M It really looks like 😁 2y

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y

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AnneCecilie

Flush | Virginia Woolf

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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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AnneCecilie

Flush | Virginia Woolf

#WeeklyForecast

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.