A secret sisterhood [electronic resource] : The literary friendships of jane austen, charlotte bronte, george eliot, and virginia woolf. Emily Midorikawa.
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 Bronte; 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501962806 (sound recording)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (10 audio files) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick : Recorded Books Inc., 2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Elizabeth Sastre. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 254269 KB). |
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Subject: | Nonfiction. Biography & Autobiography. |
Genre: | Electronic books. |