San Antonio College Library

Examines the social, political, and emotional forces that shaped the lives and art of nineteenth-century poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, whose courtship ranks with the great love stories of all time. Elizabeth, at thirty-nine, was a poet of international fame and unmarried, confined by illness, morphine, and the tyranny of her father. Robert Browning, an admired young poet and playwright and devotee of Elizabeth's, had written to Elizabeth...

"John Updike, Margaret Drabble, Nadine Gordimer, Edmund Morris and Ann Thwaite are among the twenty-eight distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the pleasures and problems of living with a writer. Husbands and wives, other relatives and friends - all have a say about this oftentimes humorous, many times saddening, but always fascinating subject."--Book jacket.

"H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was a literary lion throughout his career, publishing more than one hundred books, including classics such as War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Time Machine. Though best remembered for his science fiction, Wells was also a prolific sketcher who frequently enlivened his correspondence and marginalia with cartoons. Drawings that he called "picshuas," made for his companion and second wife Amy Catherine Robbins, allowed...