A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf
Item details
- ISBN: 9780544883734
- ISBN: 054488373X
- ISBN: 9780544883789
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Physical Description:
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xx, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-316) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / by Margaret Atwood -- Introduction : In search of a secret sisterhood -- Jane Austen & Anne Sharp. A circle of single women -- Rebellion behind closed doors -- Closing ranks -- Charlotte Brontë & Mary Taylor. Three's a crowd -- Two adventurous spirits -- One great myth -- George Eliot & Harriet Beecher Stowe. The stuff of legend -- The specter of scandal -- An act of betrayal -- Katherine Mansfield & Virginia Woolf. Friends or foes? -- Cat-and-mouse -- Life and death -- Epilogue : A web of literary connections. |
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