A secret sisterhood the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
"Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world's best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney pr...
| Main Authors: | Midorikawa, Emily (Author), Sweeney, Emma Claire (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Atwood, Margaret, 1939- (writer of foreword.) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Summary: |
"Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world's best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong, thanks to their discovery of a wealth of surprising collaborations: the friendship between Jane Austen and one of the family servants, playwright Anne Sharp; the daring feminist author Mary Taylor, who shaped the work of Charlotte Brontë; the transatlantic friendship of the seemingly aloof George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe; and Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, most often portrayed as bitter foes, but who, in fact, enjoyed a complex friendship fired by an underlying erotic charge. Through letters and diaries that have never been published before, A Secret Sisterhood resurrects these forgotten stories of female friendships. They were sometimes scandalous and volatile, sometimes supportive and inspiring, but always--until now--tantalizingly consigned to the shadows"-- Provided by publisher. "A fascinating, inspirational look at the relationships between some of our best-loved female authors and their little-known literary collaborators and friends"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: |
xx, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-316) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780544883734 054488373X |
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