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A Secret Sisterhood

The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontë, Eliot and Woolf

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A Secret Sisterhood

By: Emma Claire Sweeney, Emily Midorikawa, Margaret Atwood - foreword
Narrated by: Maggie Mash
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Drawing on letters and diaries, some of which have never been published before, this book will reveal Jane Austen's bond with a family servant; the amateur playwright Anne Sharp; how Charlotte Brontë was inspired by the daring feminist Mary Taylor; the transatlantic relationship between George Eliot and the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe; and the underlying erotic charge that lit the friendship of Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield - a pair too often dismissed as bitter foes.

With a foreword by Margaret Atwood.

©2017 Quattro Publishing PLC (P)2017 W.F. Howes Ltd Art & Literature Authors Women

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A excellent work brilliantly read. A really inspiring look at the friendships of some of our best loved female writers

Excellent

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Very different perspective, meticulous research and new material. I enjoyed this and learned a lot about the subjects and times.

Fascinating insight

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the book is very enjoyable and well read,
especially the lesser known stories of Virginia and K. Mansfield.
whereas for those who know lots about the Brontes and Jane austen, there is not much new there honestly, and little on the actual friendships.
but the chapter on Woolf and the one on Stowe were worth the money. very interesting. thanks.

loved the chapter on Woolf

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Loved the uncovering of the relationships between female authors previously hidden or ignored. Very interesting.
I was insulted by the reader attempting a Yorkshire accent in the Brontë references. I’m not sure how the New Zealand accent was viewed by others but I found that annoying too.
Apart from that…brilliant book I recommend it to any of the followers of the women whose relationships have been focussed upon.

Newly researched info here.

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This account of friendships between female authors - and acknowledgement of their significance - is fascinating and enlightening, giving a different perspective on the lives of some of out most famous and cherished authors, from Austen to Wolf and beyond.

interesting review too of previous biographies and their failure to reference these important and influential relationships - the epilogue comments further on this so don't miss that

Easy to listen to it and as I said, enlightening.

Fascinating account

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I really enjoyed this collection of stories concerning close friendships of famous writers with unusual and surprising nuggets of interesting insights throughout. Be fun to have another set of writers stories.

another take on favourite writers

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An interesting & valid approach to women writers definitely worth listening to and/or reading. The narrator is good, marred only by the unnecessary & irritating presentation of quotations. The narrator's own normal voice would have been much better.

Interesting Perspective

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