A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronté, George Eliot, & Virginia Woolf

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A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronté, George Eliot, & Virginia Woolf
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the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronté, George Eliot, & Virginia Woolf
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Emily Midorikawa & Emma Claire Sweeney
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  • Literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronté, George Eliot, & Virginia Wool
  • Literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronté, George Eliot, and Virginia Wool
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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 Bronté; 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
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820.9/9287
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