A secret sisterhood, the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, Emily Midorikawa, Emma Claire Sweeney ; with a foreword by Margaret Atwood
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A secret sisterhood, the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, Emily Midorikawa, Emma Claire Sweeney ; with a foreword by Margaret Atwood
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A secret sisterhood
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Emily Midorikawa, Emma Claire Sweeney ; with a foreword by Margaret Atwood
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the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
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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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- Novelists, English -- Biography
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Friends and associates
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Friends and associates
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Friends and associates
- Authorship + Collaboration + History
- Female friendship -- Great Britain -- History
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Friends and associates
- Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History
- Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography
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- Novelists, English -- Biography
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Friends and associates
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Friends and associates
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Friends and associates
- Authorship + Collaboration + History
- Female friendship -- Great Britain -- History
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Friends and associates
- Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History
- Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography
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