After finishing The Waves, Virginia Woolf started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, tracing the life of the spaniel from his country origins, his puppyhood spent with the writer Mary Mitford, through his sheltered existence with Elizabeth Barrett in her sick room, and later travels in Florence. But Flush is much more than a playful writer's holiday. With gently mocking humour, Wolf explores class and gender in Victorian London. Charming yet also radical, Flush is a work of sensuous imagination.