Flush, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and non fiction. This unusual biography traces the life of Flush from his carefree existence in the country to his adoption by Ms Browning and his travails in London, leading up to his final days in a bucolic Italy. Woolf ostensibly uses the life of a dog as pointed social criticism, ranging across topics from feminism and environmentalism to class conflict. She creates a biography that works on three levels. It ...
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Flush, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and non fiction. This unusual biography traces the life of Flush from his carefree existence in the country to his adoption by Ms Browning and his travails in London, leading up to his final days in a bucolic Italy. Woolf ostensibly uses the life of a dog as pointed social criticism, ranging across topics from feminism and environmentalism to class conflict. She creates a biography that works on three levels. It is overtly a biography of a dog's life. Since this dog is of interest primarily for its owner, the work is also an impressionistic biography of Elizabeth Barrett during the most dramatic years of her life. At this level, Flush mostly recapitulates the romantic legend of Barrett Browning's life: early confinement by a mysterious illness and a doting but tyrannical father; a passionate romance with an equally talented poet; an elopement that permanently estranges the father, but which allows Barrett Browning to find happiness and health in Italy. On a third level, the book gives Woolf an opportunity to return to some of her most frequent topics: the glory and misery of London; the Victorian mindset; class differences; and the ways in which women oppressed by `fathers and tyrants' may find freedom.
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1933. Very good. No dust jacket. Very light wear, clean pages. Owner's plate inside front cover. 1 185 p., [3] leaves of plates: ill., port.; 21 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps. eng pp. Very good. No dust jacket. Very light wear, clean pages. Owner's plate inside front cover.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" First American Edition, 1st printing. With illustrated endpapers. In brown cloth with silver titling, 8vo. 185pp. (light shelfwear to extremities).
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Frontis Photo. Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo. Rust c w/silver gilt titles; owner's stamp; pictorial end papers; 185 clean, unmarked pages; slight bit of marginal staining.
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Very Good. No Jacket. pp. 185. 6568 shelf. Flush was E.B. Browning's dog. Very slightly cocked white-stamped sienna cloth. Name up front. No dust jacket. "Used book 75" stamped on front illus. endpaper. Clean text. With portraits of Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Miss Mitford.
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Virginia,Virginia,Virginia! WHAT a great story about a wonderful dog-human friendship! Any animal lover will enjoy reading this somewhat unknown Virginia Woolf book. Actually, ANYONE would enjoy this story. What a delightful surprise from V.W. Check It Out!
