Download A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf AudioBook Free
Man literary friendships are the stuff of story; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world's best-loved female writers are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney demonstrate this wrong, because of their breakthrough of an abundance of surprising collaborations: the camaraderie between Jane Austen and one of the family servants, playwright Anne Clear; the daring feminist author Mary Taylor, who molded the task of Charlotte Bronte; the transatlantic camaraderie of the relatively aloof George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe; and Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, frequently portrayed as bitter foes but who, in reality, enjoyed a organic friendship terminated by an underlying erotic charge. Through letters and diaries that have never been posted before, A Key Sisterhood resurrects these forgotten stories of female friendships. These were sometimes scandalous and volatile, sometimes supportive and inspiring, but always - until now - tantalizingly consigned to the shadows.
