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Flush: A Biography
 
 

Flush: A Biography (Hardcover)

by Virginia Woolf (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 164 pages
  • Publisher: The Hogarth Press Ltd; Uniform Ed edition (Dec 1933)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0701202661
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701202668
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,181,881 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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'I lay in the garden and red the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life.' Throughout her career, Woolf invokes the animal world both directly and metaphorically. She started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel after finishing The Waves, tracing the life of the spaniel from his country origins, his puppyhood spent with the writer Mary Mitford, through his sheltered existence with Elizabeth Barrett in her sick room, and later travels in Florence. But Flush is much more than a playful writer's holiday. As well as offering an exploration of a life of the senses free from the tyranny of words, Flush can be read as an allegorical testimony to the inscrutable, discarded, unrepresentable lives of the Victorian women poets, who were barely discussed or read in the 1930s. From a quite literally low point of view, Woolf explores class and gender in Victorian London, with gently mocking humour. Charming yet also radical, Flush is a work of sensuous imagination, an apparently light text that opens up a range of questions concerning difference which are woven through the whole of Woolf's writing. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Kate Flint is a Reader in English Language and Literature and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime, 3 Sep 2008
By M. Dowden (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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Virginia Woolf's fictional biography of Flush the spaniel must make him the most famous dog in literature. Flush was Elizabeth Barrett Browning's beloved cocker spaniel, and she herself wrote two poems about him.

Poor Flush has to contend with being dog-napped, having to accept Robert Browning into his life and then the Browning's baby. He travels form London to Italy, making him a well traveled pooch, also he has to endure the Spiritualist craze of the time.

This book gives you an insight into Elizabeth Barrett Browning's life and the love she had for her dog, as well as a dog's view of living with humans. Definitely the lightest of Woolf's works this is also possibly the most accessible. If you have never read Virginia Woolf before this is a good book to make you acquainted with her work. If you are fans of her books you will love this. This book also includes the original illustrations and Margaret Forster's introduction gives an insight into Flush and his effect on Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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3 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent illustration of artistic skilfulness., 2 Nov 2001
By zdenkaa@hotmail.com (Zagreb, Croatia) - See all my reviews
This story is excellent illustration what art can do: in a sense of evolution push us little backwards but at the same time the step could be a huge one and - forward.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Forster, Browning and Flush, 18 April 2009
By P. Rauchwerger (Edinburgh Scotland) - See all my reviews
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An unusual Woolf and unputdownable. Understands a dog's sensibilities like Mark Doty in Dog Years. Interesting Forward by Margaret Forster, who wrote Lady's Maid, Life of Elizabeth B Browning, and which includes much about Flush also, of course. All three books "Must Reads" for dog lovers!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A new view of The Brownings
What a lovely book. It gives the dogs view of the world it lives in. It is the dog of Elizabeth Browning and a truly delightful book.
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