EW's GRADE
B+

Details Release Date: Mar 01, 2006; Writer: Mameve Medwed; Genre: Fiction; Publisher: William Morrow

What do true love and a vintage chamber pot have in common? A lot, if the pot was once used by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. When small-time antiques dealer Abby Randolph lugs her find to Antiques Roadshow and gets a $75,000 appraisal, her life turns upside down: A relative sues her and two difficult exes reappear — one had humiliated her by writing her into a novel; the other pilfered her mail and erased her voice-mails. Mameve Medwed's romantic comedy, How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, is slim on plot but packed with raffish charm.

Originally posted Mar 31, 2006 Published in issue #871 Apr 07, 2006 Order article reprints
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