A secret sisterhood : the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf / Emily Midorikawa & Emma Claire Sweeney.

"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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Midorikawa, Emily (Author)
Sweeney, Emma Claire (Author)
Other Authors: Atwood, Margaret, 1939- (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817 > Friends and associates.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Friends and associates.
Brontë, Charlotte, > 1816-1855 > Friends and associates.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941 > Friends and associates.
Austen, Jane, > 1775-1817.
Brontë, Charlotte, > 1816-1855.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880.
Woolf, Virginia, > 1882-1941.
Women authors, English > 19th century > Biography.
Women authors, English > 20th century > Biography.
Novelists, English > Biography.
Female friendship > Great Britain > History.
Authorship > Collaboration > History.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Friendship.
Authorship > Collaboration.
Female friendship.
Friendship.
Novelists, English.
Women and literature.
Women authors, English.
Great Britain.
1800-1999
History.
Genre:
Biography.
History.
Physical Description:xx, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Variant Title:
Literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf
Format: Book

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