Under the Yew Tree

Elizabeth Barrett Browning


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Under the Yew Tree - Weekly, short, slow-listening podcasts to add a poem to your week. This week I'm thinking about one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's wonderful love sonnets, Sonnet 22 - 'When our two souls..." Elizabeth Barrett Browning endured a life defined by chronic illness, and I consider the impact of illness on Victorian women through looking at Charlotte Perkins Gillman's novel 'The Yellow Wallpaper'.

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Under the Yew TreeBy Rose London