Showing posts with label Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

a famous dog blogger - not!

Flush - a Biography. It's the title of a book by Virginia Woolf. What a discovery! If such a great literary figure thougth it was okay to write the life story of a dog, we doggie bloggers can hold our heads high!

Woolf published Flush in 1933 and it's a fictional biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s dog.(Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Romantic Movement, born in 1806 in England.)
Here's a little of the opening of chapter one. (Which of course has a different literary style from a modern blog, lol.)
Many million years ago the country which is now called Spain seethed uneasily in the ferment of creation. Ages passed; vegetation appeared; where there is vegetation the law of Nature has decreed that there shall be rabbits; where there are rabbits, Providence has ordained there shall be dogs.
The text of the whole book is available free at Project Gutenberg.