The book "Oxford University Press Classics. Flush" — Вирджиния ВулфМолодой спаниель Флаш подарен мисс Баррет её подругой мисс Митфорд. Вместе со своей хозяйкой Флаш разделяет её затворничество в доме отца Элизабет на Уимпол-стрит. Он становится свидетелем романа мисс Баррет и Роберта Браунинга. Флаша похищают лондонские бродяги и мисс Баррет выкупает его. Элизабет, покидая родительский дом после тайного бракосочетания, забирает с собой Флаша. Флаш вместе с Браунингами уезжает в Италию, где умирает, дожив до «прекрасной старости» и находит свой последний под флорентийским домом Браунингов Casa Guidi.
Flush.
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.
Key features: - Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel after finishing The Waves.
- Victorian women poets.
- Victorian London.
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