Aurora Leigh Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism

Aurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century, is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth century poem of contemporary life. It is an amazing verse novel which provides a panoramic view of the early Victorian age in London. The dominant presence in the work however, is the narrator Aurora Leigh, as she develops her ideas on art, love, God, the "Woman Question", and society.Browning, Elizabeth Barrett is the author of 'Aurora Leigh Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism', published 1995 under ISBN 9780393962987 and ISBN 0393962989.