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Unveiling forgotten bonds between legendary female authors.

A Secret Sisterhood offers a refreshing re-examination of literary friendships between female authors. Midorikawa and Sweeney explore the often-overlooked partnerships between Jane Austen and Anne Sharp, Charlotte Bronte and Mary Taylor, George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. Using unpublished letters and diaries, the book offers an intimate glimpse into the complex, but often-understated relationships between these trailblazing writers. A must-read for any enthusiast of literature, biography, or female empowerment.

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A Secret Sisterhood : The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

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ISBN: 9780544883734
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date of Publication: 2017-10-17
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs
Goodreads rating: 3.66
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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 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.
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Unveiling forgotten bonds between legendary female authors.

A Secret Sisterhood offers a refreshing re-examination of literary friendships between female authors. Midorikawa and Sweeney explore the often-overlooked partnerships between Jane Austen and Anne Sharp, Charlotte Bronte and Mary Taylor, George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. Using unpublished letters and diaries, the book offers an intimate glimpse into the complex, but often-understated relationships between these trailblazing writers. A must-read for any enthusiast of literature, biography, or female empowerment.