Elizabeth Barrett was already a writer — and an invalid — when she got her cocker spaniel, Flush. Virginia Woolf’s Flush (published 1933) is a mock-biography of that pet dog. It is both a story of a dog’s life but also a commentary on the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB) before and after her

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The titular Lady in Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary by Ruby Ferguson (published 1937) had a childhood of wealthy bliss in her Scottish estate in the 1860s and 1870s, as told by the housekeeper Mrs. Memmary, who welcomes the American tourists for a tour of the rundown castle in the 1930s. The tourists are enthralled

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