1806-1861

Boston antiques dealer Abby Randolph, betrayed by an old friend, dumped by her lover, and grieving the death of her mom, makes the surprising discovery that an old chamber pot she inherited from her mother once belonged to poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and is worth nearly one hundred thousand dollars--a fact that brings a lot of people from her past calling.

In 1845, Elizabeth Barrett, having succumbed to the fact that she will be a prisoner in her own home due to her father's insistence that his children will never marry, receives a letter of admiration from Robert Browning, and the two engage in a correspondence which makes her debate defying her dad.

A biography of the Brownings, whose courtship and marriage resulted in one of the greatest love stories of all time.

Presents the forty-four sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning during her courtship with Robert, and features excerpts from the love letters exchanged between the couple during the time the poems were composed.