Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Rescuing Elizabeth Barrett Browning from her wax-doll image

Fiona Sampson breathes vigour into a poet generally represented as a delicate invalid without any inner life at all

Photograph of EBB taken from an ambrotype made by the Macaire brothers in Le Havre in 1858. Dante Gabriel Rossetti used it as the base for his portrait 
issue 30 January 2021

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