Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf (2017)por Emily Midorikawa, Emma Claire Sweeney
Ninguno Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This history of female authors and their friendships offers something new to the well-known stories of several writers. Rather than writing in isolation, friendships with other women writers sustained and propelled authors like Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf to their success. I was especially intrigued to learn about the correspondence between George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Overall, a great read for better understanding these pivotal writers. ( ) This is an engaging book, if a bit earnest for my taste. I didn't find the central thesis--that little-known women's friendships played pivotal roles in the writing of four famous female writers--particularly compelling; at least I felt that the authors overstated their case. However, the narrative parts of the book were well-written, and I'm not going to complain about time spent with Charlotte Bronte or Harriet Beecher Stowe. In A Secret Sisterhood, co-authors Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney examine the fraught literary friendships of four classic female writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf. All four of these famous women relied on close relationships with female companions to sustain and inspire them. Nonetheless, these friendships were also marked by misunderstandings, petty jealousies, and long periods of estrangement. This book's prose isn't great (our heroines are constantly "putting pen to paper", to cite one overused phrase), but overall this is a solid collective biography that sheds new light on often-neglected relationships. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)820.9Literature English English literature in more than one form History, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one formClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |