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An author's memoir of another author's dog
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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! ⬇️

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.

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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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

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.