Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Great Gifts_Collectibles until the figures led them

until the figures led them to the body of a young girl

and keeps her from forming deep relationships

but she is still determined to fly

In The Elements

but one of the hardest to pin down

Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Great Gifts_Collectibles until the figures led themThe social panorama extends from the slums of London, through the literary world, to the upper classes and a number of superb satiric portraits: an aunt with rigidly conventional notions of female education; Romney Leigh, the Christian socialist; Lord Howe, the amateur radical; Sir Blaise Delorme, the ostentatious Roman Catholic; and the unscrupulous society beauty Lady Waldemar. However, the dominant presence in the work is the narrator, Aurora Leigh