How Do I Love Thee? (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Helen E. Waite
- First Published: 1953
- Time of Work: The mid-nineteenth century
- Setting: England and Continental Europe
- Principal Characters: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Edward Barrett, John Kenyon, George, Elizabeth, Alfred, Septimus (“Sette”), Arabel, Henrietta, Mary, Samuel, Charles John, Edward, Wilson, Jane Hedley, Flush, Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning, Sarianna Browning, Mrs. Jameson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Parents and children, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Fathers, Sick persons, Biography
- Locales: Europe, England
Form and Content
Helen E. Waite’s How Do I Love Thee? The Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a biography, a social commentary, a psychological study, and a romance in the chivalric tradition. Although the author is not forthcoming with specific dates concerning events in the poet’s life, she does reveal details that provide a historical context for the modern reader. Some locations in London, such as streets and train stations, are vividly depicted as seen through the eyes of the protagonist, who seldom ventured out into the world. Each of Barrett Browning’s...
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