The swan's nest : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION MCNE (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
Physical Description
310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great nineteenth-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen."--
Contents
- Part One: England
- Part Two: The wider world
- Appendix I: The Barrett and Browning families
- Appendix II: The wider circle.