pickFlush is the biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog. But since Flush is a dog, his life is tightly knotted with Elizabeth's. So we learn about both, especially since Woolf includes pictures and sources. We learn about life in England during the Victorian era, about good dog breeds and mutts, about men and women and how spaniels are called spaniels. Lovely, even though many things Flush observes isn't.
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pickFlush was Elisabeth Barrett Browning‘s English cocker spaniel. We get the story of who Flush ended up with her, their life together and the changes that where to happen with Miss Barrett being courted by Mr Browning and them getting married.
I don‘t think I‘ve ever read a book where the animal have seemed so alive, at times I forgot that the story was told by a dog.
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I want to see if I can finish To the River and if I do I want to start Islands of Abandonment
I‘m just about to start Flush
I want to read Jane and Prudence
I read volume 1 of Orange yesterday and want to read volumes 2 and 3 this week.
EBB is one of my favorite poets. And so I will definitely have to pick up this biography.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/elizabeth-barrett-browning-bi...
Have a few days holiday. On the left is my holiday book stack and on the right is my husband‘s. We will see if we manage to get through them 📚
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What a lovely book (that I didn‘t even know existed!) about a Spaniel named Flush, and the trials and tribulations of his life spent with, first, Elizabeth Barrett [Browning], and then with both she and her husband, Robert Browning. I found myself sympathizing rather too much with Flush‘s (sometimes) sadness, so evocative is the writing of Woolf. When Flush is taken from his country life with Miss Mitford and ⬇️
