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Article: Aurora Leigh as Paradigm of Domestic-Professional Fiction.(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- Philological Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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I am waiting for a story, and I won't take one, because I want to make one, and I like to make my own stories, because then I can take liberties with them in the treatment.
--Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning; February 27, 1845
If, therefore, I move certain subjects in this work, it is because my conscience was first moved in me not to ignore them.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Julia Martin; February, 1857
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Through an analysis of Aurora Leigh as domestic-professional fiction, in this essay I investigate Elizabeth Barrett Browning's evolving feminist and artistic philosophy. I define domestic-professional fiction as ...