5/13/2023 0 Comments Lady's Maid by Margaret Forster![]() ![]() Although the Brownings figure largely in the novel, the story is essentially Wilson’s and, by extension, a generic saga of Victorian servants and their precarious relationship to those who might profess to be their friends but who continued to be their masters.Īfter Wilson married and became pregnant, she was sent to England to have the child and was obliged to leave her son with her sister. ![]() Once established in Italy with the Brownings, Wilson flourished, learning the language, losing her meekness and acquiring a dashing, if temporary, Italian beau.Įventually she married another Italian, a man also in the Browning’s employ, and bore two children. ![]() Although her poetry had already been published to considerable acclaim, Elizabeth Barrett lived as a recluse until she received her first letters from an admiring Robert Browning, a correspondence that soon blossomed into the celebrated romance and the astonishing elopement an event in which Wilson’s role was second only to the bridegroom’s. ![]()
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