Lady's Maid

Margaret Forster

first published 1990 Chatto & Windus, 1990 536 pages

Provides a fictional portrait of Elizabeth Wilson, the indispensible lady's maid to poet Elizabeth Barrett, whose devotion made possible Barrett's marriage to Robert Browning and their flight to Italy.

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Lady's Maid paperback · 2007 · Ballantine Books · 576 pages · 9780345497437
Lady's Maid paperback · 2005 · Vintage Books · 544 pages · 9780099478485
Die Dienerin edition · 1995 · Fischer
Lady's Maid paperback · 1991 · Penguin USA (P) · 544 pages · 9780140147612
Lady's maid edition · 1991 · Doubleday · 548 pages
Lady's maid edition · 1990 · Chatto & Windus · 536 pages

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