"The Diary of Elizabeth Barret Barret edited with an introduction and notes by Philip Kelly and Ronald Hudson. Including psychoanalytical obeservations by Robert Coles M.D." -- Amazon.com

The face of Robert Browning gives nothing away -- handsome and polished, it offers no hold to those who would pry into the soul behind. Its metallic mirror gives us back ourselves. But the face of Elizabeth Barret Browning speaks openly of her sufferings -- of ill health, of an iron father, of miscarriages -- yet speaking in the accents of courage and good sense. Any woman of sensitivity and talent can imagine herself as Elizabeth, in the hope that...