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

by Emma Claire Sweeney, Emily Midorikawa, Margaret Atwood
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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 Using unpublished letters and diaries, the book offers an intimate glimpse into the complex, but often-understated relationships between these trailblazing writers.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.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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A Secret Sisterhood : The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

by Emma Claire Sweeney, Emily Midorikawa, Margaret Atwood
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ISBN: 9780544883734
Authors: Emma Claire Sweeney, Emily Midorikawa, Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date of Publication: 2017-10-17
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Historical, Biography Memoir, Biography
Goodreads rating: 3.66
(rated by 1074 readers)

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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.
 

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.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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