Getting to know her …

 … 'Two-Way Mirror,' by Fiona Sampson book review - The Washington Post. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

Sampson tackles our misunderstanding of Barrett Browning by showing us the challenges she faced. Writing in the present tense, Sampson places “Ba,” as her family and friends called her, before the reader in her full humanity, so that we puzzle over her problems, we are infuriated by the doctors who tell her not to write to preserve her health and we egg her on when it is clear that her father will not let her marry Browning.