A secret sisterhood : the hidden friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf / Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney ; foreword by Margaret Atwood.
Publication details: London : Aurum Press, an imprint of The Quarto Group, 2017.Description: 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmISBN:- 1781315949
- 9781781315941
- Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Friends and associates
- Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
- Sharp, Anne
- Taylor, Mary, 1817-1893
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
- Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Friends and associates
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 -- Friends and associates
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Friends and associates
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Friends and associates
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
- Biography & True Stories
- Female friendship
- Friendship
- Literature
- Women authors, English -- Biography
- Female friendship
- Female friendship -- Great Britain -- History
- Great Britain
- 823.009/9287 23
- PR830.W6 M53 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-309) and index.
A Secret Sisterhood looks at the friendships 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 seemingly aloof George Eliot and the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 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 which have never been published before, the book will resurrect these hitherto forgotten stories of female friendships that were sometimes illicit, scandalous and volatile; sometimes supportive, radical or inspiring; but always, until now, tantalisingly consigned to the shadows.
Emily Midorikawa lectures at City University and at New York University's London campus. Her memoir The Memory Album appeared in Tangled Roots, a 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. She writes for newspapers and magazines. Her debut novel Owl Song at Dawn was published in 2016 to great acclaim.