Fiona Sampson

Poet and Writer, UK

Fiona Sampson is an award-winning poet and writer, and Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of Roehampton, London. Her Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (W W Norton) and Limestone Country (Little Toller) both appear in paperback this summer.

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Written by Fiona Sampson

A young girl in a pink dress stands on a step, holding the hand of an adult. Four adults are partially visible around her.

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Biography and memoir

The adoption paradox

Even happy families cannot avoid the reality – my reality – that adoption is predicated on transacting the life of a child

Fiona Sampson

Collection of souvenir fridge magnets with images of a cottage, an interior with a fireplace, yellow daffodils, and a sketch of a historical figure.

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History of ideas

Sleepwalk to the gift shop

Romanticism once radically challenged conventional pieties. Now it’s little more than marketable schlock. What happened?

Fiona Sampson