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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.