5/20/2023 0 Comments Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster![]() She accompanied the pair when they went abroad and for many years would live either with or near to them. Wilson was originally Barrett Browning's maid when she lived in Wimpole Street and before her famous elopement with fellow poet Robert Browning. Wilson matures from a very shy twenty-three year old under Barrett Browning's guidance – and it's soon obvious that Barrett Browning needs Wilson more than Wilson needs her, but there's mutual affection even if in a mistress and servant relationship. ![]() Barrett Browning led a somewhat solitary life having always suffered from ill health – there are occasional hints that she might have suffered from TB – and the novel revolves around her rather claustrophobic relationship with Wilson, who was her maid for some fifteen years from 1844. Lady's Maid tells the lightly fictionalised story of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her maid, Elizabeth Wilson. ![]() It's rich in detail and beautifully written but the pace does drag a little in parts. ![]() Summary: A lightly fictionalised account of the life of Elizabeth Wilson, maid to poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. ![]()
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