landthieves

Updated: May 23, 2025

First Galignani has to pirate them himself, and then to hand us over the spoils. By the way, there's to be an international copyright, isn't there? Something is talked of it in the 'Athenaeum. Meanwhile the Americans have already reprinted my husband's new edition. 'Landthieves, I mean pirates. I used to take that for a slip of the pen in Shakespeare; but it was a slip of the pen into prophecy.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)