How Do I Love Thee
By Adelaide MarchmontSecret letters lead Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning toward a life together.
Adult romance with explicit sexual content. Check the retailer description and sample for further information before reading.
About the story
One unfamiliar handwriting. A room that suddenly feels less closed.
At Wimpole Street, Elizabeth Barrett has shaped a life around the ordered stillness of her room. Letters arrive as they always do, until an unfamiliar hand interrupts a familiar afternoon. Robert Browning has written about her poems with an attention that feels startlingly personal.
Admiration becomes the beginning of a correspondence with possibilities she cannot neatly dismiss. To be read so closely is one kind of intimacy. To imagine a life beyond the boundaries already laid around her is another. Their letters open a space between the life she knows and one she might dare to choose.
A Victorian historical romance imagining Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, with literary connection, private hope, and a relationship growing through correspondence.
Your kind of romance?
- Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
- Victorian literary romance
- Letters and intellectual intimacy
- A future beyond a confined household
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I sat with the letter in my lap for some time after that, and Flush lifted his head once, as though he sensed some alteration in the atmosphere of the room, some small disturbance in the weather of my thought, and then settled again, unconcerned, for dogs are wiser than we are about which disturbances merit alarm.
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