Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Her Letters
Genius is a ?ower that grows without sowing it breaks out unforeseen, like the snapdragon on a wall. Yet it seems on the whole to presuppose certain conditions in its environment, some strain of strong blood, some vividness of temperament. It has often been noticed that the mothers of these elect children have generally been women of deep feelings and marked individuality; indeed, this seems to be the one fairly constant law in the matter. It is the stranger that the two women of fieriest genius that England produced in the nineteenth century, Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Barrett, should both have had pallid and ineffectual mothers.
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