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Collection: Adult Nonfiction
Call Number: 820.9 Midorikawa
Author: Midorikawa, Emily,
Title: A secret sisterhood :
Remainder of title: the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront?e, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf /
Summary, etc. note: "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 Bront?e; 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"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780544883734 (hardback)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780544883789 (ebook)
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: e-uk-en
Classification number: PR119
Item number: .M53 2017
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 820.9/9287
Source of number: bisacsh
Classification number: BIO007000
Classification number: BIO022000
Classification number: FAM021000
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Emily Midorikawa, Emma Claire Sweeney ; foreword by Margaret Atwood.
Title proper/short title: Literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront?e, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
Place of publication: Boston, MA.
Name of publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date of publication: 2017
Projected publication date: 1111
: Boston :
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
: 2017.
Extent: ix; 331p.; 24 cm.
Other physical details: b/w photographs.
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: text
: txt
: rdamedia
: unmediated
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: rdacarrier
: volume
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary, etc. note: "A fascinating, inspirational look at the relationships between some of our best-loved female authors and their little-known literary collaborators and friends"--
: Provided by publisher.
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T 01/22/2018
Purchase price: $ 27.00
Personal name: Woolf, Virginia,
Personal name: Bront?e, Charlotte,
Personal name: Eliot, George,
Personal name: Austen, Jane,
Dates associated with a name: 1882-1941
Dates associated with a name: 1816-1855
Dates associated with a name: 1819-1880
Dates associated with a name: 1775-1817
General subdivision: Friends and associates.
General subdivision: Friends and associates.
General subdivision: Friends and associates.
General subdivision: Friends and associates.
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Subject: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
Subject: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
Subject: Women and literature
Subject: Authorship
Subject: Female friendship
Subject: Novelists, English
Subject: Women authors, English
Subject: Women authors, English
Subject: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Friendship.
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
General subdivision: History.
General subdivision: History.
General subdivision: History.
General subdivision: Collaboration
Chronological subdivision: 19th century
Chronological subdivision: 20th century
Geographic subdivision: Great Britain
Geographic subdivision: Great Britain
Personal name: Sweeney, Emma Claire,
Personal name: Atwood, Margaret,
Dates associated with a name: 1939-
Relator term: author.
Relator term: writer of foreword.
Main entry heading: Midorikawa, Emily, author.
Place, publisher, and date of publication: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
Display text: Online version:
Title: Secret sisterhood
Record control number: (DLC) 2017050302
International Standard Book Number: 9780544883789
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: 1 shelf copy
: policy default
: xn15 2017-11-07 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
: xk20 2017-10-17
: xk20 2017-10-17 ONIX, to Dewey
: xm07 2017-10-17
: Jennifer Freilach; phone: 617-351-5109; email: jennifer.freilach@hmhco.com; bc: Margaret.Anne.Miles@hmhco.com

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