Aurora Leigh (Summarized Edition)

Aurora Leigh (1856) is Elizabeth Barrett Browning's novel-in-verse, a nine-book Künstlerroman tracing a woman poet from Anglo-Italian childhood to artistic authority. In supple blank verse, it fuses epic ambition with the Victorian social problem novel: debates with Romney Leigh intersect the ordeal of Marian Erle, exposing poverty, sexual coercion, and the limits of philanthropy. Allusive to Milt...