How Do I Love Thee? by Nancy Moser, is a delightfully captivating, well written novel about the romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Moser’s balance between her artistic imagination and the actual astounding fairy-tale worthy facts of the story, gathered mostly from Elizabeth’s correspondence with Robert and others, blend together into a novel that will draw you into her world on 50 Wimpole Street. The air she breathed, the air she feared; the room that was her sanctuary, the room that was her prison; the father that she loved, the father who would never love her; the man who loved her, the man with whom she fell in love; all of these can be seen through her eyes as you read her poetical story.
This novel surprised me at every turn, and I believe that women old and young alike will be able to connect to the poet, for she has the innocence of a young woman and yet the mind of someone far older; her childish fears that held her captive were eventually put aside and she bloomed into the brilliant and sunning rose that captivated the hearts of England with her Sonnets From The Portuguese, her love sonnets for her beloved Robert.
-Rebekah
This novel surprised me at every turn, and I believe that women old and young alike will be able to connect to the poet, for she has the innocence of a young woman and yet the mind of someone far older; her childish fears that held her captive were eventually put aside and she bloomed into the brilliant and sunning rose that captivated the hearts of England with her Sonnets From The Portuguese, her love sonnets for her beloved Robert.
-Rebekah
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