RELEASE DATE: September 22, 2026

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Deeply researched and strikingly illustrated in Victorian style, Not Death, But Love puts an eerie, romantic twist on the true story of the poet who wrote the iconic Sonnet 43, which famously begins “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

An invalid since childhood, poet Elizabeth Barrett is famous throughout Victorian England, despite hermit-like existence in the household of her tyrannical father. Opium makes the pain of her
mysterious illness more bearable, but she lives in constant expectation of death. To her surprise, she instead finds love with dashing fellow poet Robert Browning, who whisks her away to freedom in Florence, Italy. Captivated by her new home and the revolutionary spirit of the Italian Risorgimento, Elizabeth basks in the glow of a happy marriage and reinvigorated health.

Haunted by lingering griefs, however, Elizabeth is drawn into a shadowy world of séances and
mediums as the supernatural craze known as spiritualism spreads from America to Europe. On a
visit to London, she witnesses the otherworldly feats of celebrated medium Daniel Dunglas
Home, who claims to conjure the spirits of dearly departed relatives. While Robert takes an
immediate dislike to Home, sparking a bitter rivalry, Elizabeth falls under the spell of enchanting
Boston heiress Sophie Eckley. The two women embark on a series of spiritual experiments that
threaten Elizabeth and Robert’s status as soulmates. Laced with hints of the supernatural, this
graphic novel retells Barrett Browning’s story while exploring the timeless tensions between
passion and repression, faith and skepticism, hope and despair.