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1 online resource |
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 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. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 11978 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Friends and associates.
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Friends and associates.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Friends and associates.
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Friends and associates.
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Women authors, English -- Biography.
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Female friendship -- Great Britain -- History.
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Genre |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Sweeney, Emma Claire, author.
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Original 9780544883734 |
ISBN |
9780544883789 (electronic bk) |
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