A Secret Sisterhood The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf

Author(s): Emma Claire Sweeney; Emily Midorikawa; Margaret Atwood (Foreword by)

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'In digging up the forgotten friendships chronicled in A Secret Sisterhood, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney have done much service to literary history.'
Margaret  Atwood
 
'A Secret Sisterhood will help make women's literary friendships of the past relevant to the present.'
Mich#65533;le Roberts
 
'A Secret Sisterhood offers a clever new perspective on established literary figures.'
Tracy Chevalier

In their first book together, Midorikawa and Sweeney resurrect four literary collaborations, which were sometimes illicit, scandalous and volati≤ sometimes supportive, radical or inspiring; but always, until now, tantalisingly consigned to the shadows.

Drawing on letters and diaries, some of which have never been published before, and new documents uncovered during the authors' research, the creative connections explored here reveal: Jane Austen's bond with a family servant, the amateur playwright Anne Sharp; how Charlotte Bront#65533; was inspired by the daring feminist Mary Tayl∨ the transatlantic relationship between George Eliot and the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe; and the underlying erotic charge that lit the friendship of Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield - a pair too often dismissed as bitter foes.
 
A Secret Sisterhood uncovers the hidden literary friendships of the world's most respected female authors.
 


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Emily Midorikawa lectures at City University and at New York University's London campus. She has taught at the University of Cambridge and the Open University, as well as writing for the Daily Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday, The Times,Aesthetica and Mslexia. Her memoir 'The Memory Album' appeared in Tangled Roots, an Arts Council-sponsored collection that celebrates the stories of mixed-race families. Emily is the winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2015, and was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition. She was a runner-up in the SI Leeds Literary Prize, judged by Margaret Busby, and the Yeovil Literary Prize, judged by Tracy Chevalier. Emma Claire Sweeney has lectured at City University, New York University in London, the Open University and the University of Cambridge. Her work has won Arts Council, Royal Literary Fund and Escalator Awards, and has been shortlisted for several others, including the Asham, Wasafiri and Fish. She writes for newspapers and magazines such as the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday, The Times, and Mslexia. Her debut novel Owl Song at Dawn was published by Legend Press in July 2016 to great acclaim.

General Fields

  • : 9781781315941
  • : Quarto Publishing Group UK
  • : Aurum Press
  • : June 2017
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Emma Claire Sweeney; Emily Midorikawa; Margaret Atwood (Foreword by)
  • : Hardback
  • : 617
  • : English
  • : 823.0099287
  • : 320