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Flush

Virginia Woolf, Katyuli Lloyd

  • 157 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1933
  • 206 editions
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1 About this book

A wonderfully creative and whimsical book, the biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel. After spending his youth in the country, Flush was given to the invalid poet Elizabeth Barrett and learned to live a quiet live as her companion.

Flush is jealous when Robert Browning captures Miss Barrett's attention, but eventually accepts him and is wildly happy when they all move to Italy. The lives of the poets through a dog's eyes--by Virginia Woolf, of all people! This is proof that she could write a happy book.

Good for readers who want: dogs and a short read.

  • Dogs
  • Biography
  • Human-animal relationships
  • Legends and stories
  • English Poets
  • Legends
  • Folklore
  • Anecdotes

2 About Virginia Woolf

1882–1941

Adeline Virginia Woolf ( "wolf"; née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device. Virginia Woolf was born in South Kensington, London, into an affluent and intellectual family as the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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