![]() But the extraordinary note running though Ms. Standing in the shadows the whole time, generally disregarded and unnoticed, Wilson served Elizabeth Barrett Browning faithfully and was prepared to sacrifice her own happiness for that of her mistress. Forster, the biographer of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, to choose Wilson as her focus, for it was Wilson who made the love story possible. Margaret Forster's wonderful novel, "Lady's Maid," retells this story as fiction through the eyes of Miss Elizabeth's servant, Elizabeth Wilson (Lily to her mother, Wilson to her mistress). Secretly wed in a church near Wimpole Street, they took flight, going first to France, then on to Italy where they mostly stayed for the 15 years before she died, romantically, in his arms. ![]() The invalid spinster poet, living reclusively in her father's London home, was wooed by a dashing and worldly younger suitor through letters and visits. The courtship, marriage and elopement of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning is a love story that does not wither in retelling. ![]()
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