Flush

Flush is Elizabeth Barrett Browning's randy, aristocratic, floppish pet spaniel. In this biography, Virginia Woolf follows Flush's career from his birth in Berkshire and his first years with the invalid, Miss Barrett, through to his kidnapping by London vagabonds and his dotage in Italy. This book includes the biography, analysing Woolf's attitude towards servants, especially her fascination with Barrett Browning's maid, Elizabeth Wilson, the inspiration for Margaret Forster's novel, Lady's Maid.