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Strange Music: engaging imaginatively with the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning from a Creole and Black Woman's perspective.

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From: Victorian Poetry
Date: 20061222
Author:Fish, Laura

My novel in progress Strange Music (Jonathan Cape, forthcoming, 2008) offers a fictional exploration of the family of Elizabeth Barrett Browning from Elizabeth's own perspective and from that of a Creole and a black woman, and juxtaposes the three women's experiences at a moment of crisis within the Barrett family itself. Strange Music may be more accurately described as a work of bio-fiction, where the distinction between fact and fiction becomes clouded. It is set between 1837 and 1840 in Torquay in Devon and at the Great Houses of Cinnamon Hill and Greenwood, former homes of ...

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