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

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A secret sisterhood

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Emily Midorikawa & Emma Claire Sweeney

the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf

Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend, but what about the friendships of women writers? A Secret Sisterhood, drawing on letters and diaries, some never published before, brings to light a wealth of surprising female collaborations: the friendship between Jane Austen and one of the family servants, amateur 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 the ebullient Harriet Beecher Stowe; and Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, most often portrayed as bitter foes, but who, in fact, enjoyed a complex friendship. They were sometimes scandalous and volatile, sometimes supportive and inspiring, but always-until now-tantalizingly consigned to the shadows

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Literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf