{"product_id":"9780345497437","title":"Lady's Maid: A Novel","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eForster, Margaret\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBallantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e5\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate  romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate  observer.”—Booklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Young and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening  sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives in London in 1844, becoming a lady’s maid to  the fragile, housebound Elizabeth Barrett. Lily is quickly drawn to her mistress’ s gaiety and sharp intelligence, the power of her poetry, and her deep emotional  need. It is a strange intimacy that will last sixteen years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is Lily who smuggles  Miss Barrett out of the gloomy Wimpole Street house, witnesses her secret wedding  to Robert Browning in an empty church, and flees with them to threadbare lodgings  and the heat, light, and colors of Italy. As housekeeper, nursemaid, companion, and  confidante, Lily is with Elizabeth in every crisis–birth, bereavement, travel, literary  triumph. As her devotion turns almost to obsession, Lily forgets her own fleeting  loneliness. But when Lily’s own affairs take a dramatic turn, she comes to expect  the loyalty from Elizabeth that she herself has always given.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLady's Maid\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] wonderful novel . . . fully imagined and persuasive fiction.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Absorbing . . . heartbreaking . . . grips the reader's imagination on every page . . . [Margaret] Forster paints a vivid picture of class, station, hypocrisy and survival in Victorian society.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Extremely readable . . . The author's sense of the nineteenth century seems innate.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Highly recommended . . . an engrossing novel of the colorful Browning ménage.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Delightful . . . entertaining.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43352092868863,"sku":"9780345497437","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780345497437_s600x595.jpg?v=1775582552","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780345497437","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}