Aurora Leigh - Oxford World's Classics Author:Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh, now available in the first critically edited and fully annotated edition for almost a century, is the foremost example of the mid-nineteenth century poem of contemporary life. It is an amazing verse novel which provides a panoramic view of the early Victorian age in London. The dominant presence in the work however, is the... more » narrator Aurora Leigh, as she develops her ideas on art, love, God, the "Woman Question", and society.« less