0393245098 (N) by Anne Boyd Rioux

Author:Anne Boyd Rioux
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

AURORA LEIGH’S VIEW

As the new year arrived, James went down to join Boott and the Duvenecks in Florence, leaving Woolson to take possession of her new villa. The Villa Brichieri was not perfect—it was rough and rather empty feeling—but it more than fulfilled her desire for a home of her own. It was the first place she had settled into since her father had died seventeen years earlier. She could not contain her joy. She was “so tired of a wandering life” that she quickly decided the villa was “the greatest success” of her life. Her high spirits overflowed. After “seventeen years of wandering” and “much sorrow; & pain; & toil,” she had found “peace & joy unlimited.” “[T]he wheel seems to have turned round completely,” she wrote to Stedman. She was “supremely happy.”32

Woolson was convinced she had “as lovely a view as the world contains.” Rather than try to describe its beauty, she told her correspondents to take out their copies of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh and turn to the following passage:

I found a house, at Florence, on the hill

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