Flush: A Biography

A short, affectionate and humorous book telling the life of Flush, the cocker spaniel belonging to the poet Elizabeth Barrett. Seen from the dog's point of view, it follows his country youth, his life in her quiet sickroom in London, and the arrival of the poet Robert Browning. Woolf uses the dog's senses, especially smell, to look freshly at Victorian life and at the city. It is a light but clever work, part gentle comedy and part experiment in biography.