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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 02 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Narrated by Elizabeth Sastre. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Friends and associates.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Friends and associates.
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Friends and associates.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Friends and associates.
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Women authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Novelists, English -- Biography.
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Female friendship -- Great Britain -- History.
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Authorship -- Collaboration -- History.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
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Atwood, Margaret.
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Sweeney, Emma Claire, author.
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Sastre, Elizabeth, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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Literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN |
9781501962806 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1501962809 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13535208 |
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