Whiting tells the two lives in parallel, beginning with Robert’s boyhood and Elizabeth Barrett’s invalid girlhood, then their courtship by letter, secret marriage and flight to Italy in 1846. She follows their years at Casa Guidi in Florence, their friends among the English and American colonies, Elizabeth’s death in 1861 and Robert’s long widowhood, weaving in their poems throughout.
An admiring double biography of literature’s most famous marriage. Download the free EPUB.