They were sometimes scandalous and volatile, sometimes supportive and inspiring, but always--until now--tantalizingly consigned to the shadows.About the Author:Writers and friends EMILY MIDORIKAWA and EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEY co-run the website somethingrhymed.com.
A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront , George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, Paperback - Emily Midorikawa Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend, but what about the friendships of women writers?. Emma is author of the novel Owl Song at Dawn, Emily is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, and they both teach at New York University in London.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 Bront ; 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.