Author: Anthony TrollopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Writings of Anthony Trollope: The warden
Author: Anthony TrollopeThe warden
Author: Anthony TrollopeThe Brontës Life and Letters
Author: Clement King ShorterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108065236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
First published in 1908, this two-volume collection documents through correspondence the remarkable careers of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë.
A Bibliography of Shelley's Letters Published and Unpublished
Author: A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford: Accessions, 1890-1915, by F. Madan and H.H.E. Craster
Author: Bodleian LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
A First Sketch of English Literature
Author: Henry MORLEY (Professor of English Literature at University College, London.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
The Fortnightly
Author: History for Ready Reference: Tunnage-Zyp and Supplement
Author: Josephus Nelson LarnedPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
"This work has two aims : to represent and exhibit the better Literature of History in the English language, and to give it an organized body--a system--adapted to the greatest convenience in any use, whether for reference, or for reading, for teacher, student, or casual inquirer."--V. 1, Preface.
A Secret Sisterhood
Author: Emily MidorikawaPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544883780
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Two female writers and best friends bring to light the literary friendships of four iconic female authors. 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 Brontë; 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. With a foreword by Margaret Atwood “A thought-provoking meditation on literary friendship as well as engagingly intimate glimpses of four of the world’s finest writers.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A medley of vivid narratives.” —The Atlantic “Midorikawa and Sweeney have committed an exceptional act of literary espionage. English literature owes them a great debt.” —Financial Times “A vital and necessary contribution to women's history, literary history, and the literature of friendship.”—Kate Bolick, author of Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
The Letters of Charlotte Brontë
Author: Margaret SmithPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 9780191513282
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This final volume of Charlotte Brontë's letters covers the period from 1852, when she eventually completed Villette, to March 1855, when she died at the early age of 38. Published in January 1853, Villette reflects experiences and moods conveyed with sharp immediacy in the correspondence of the preceding years. In December 1852 one of her most dramatic letters described the crucial event in her private life: Arthur Nicholls's proposal of marriage, when, 'shaking from head to foot' he made her feel 'what it costs a man to declare affection where he doubts response.' Mr Brontë's furious opposition to the match was not overcome until 1854, the year of Charlotte's marriage on 29 June. In the all too few months before her death, she came to love and trust Nicholls, her 'dear boy' and her 'tenderest nurse' during her final illness. The letters in this volume include on the one hand Charlotte's brief curt note to George Smith on his engagement to Elizabeth Blakeway, and on the other a newly discovered letter describing with cheerful briskness Charlotte's purchase of her own wedding trousseau. Complete texts of letters previously published inaccurately or in part provide valuable insight into her other friendships. Those to Elizabeth Gaskell in particular have an important bearing on our interpretation and assessment of her Life of Charlotte, published early in 1857; and the inclusion of Harriet Martineau's angry comments on the Life ('Hallucination!' [Friendship] was never attained.') enhances our understanding of Charlotte's break with Martineau after her review of Villette. The redating of a letter has shown that the long estrangement between Charlotte and her oldest friend, Ellen Nussey, caused by Ellen's hostility to the idea of Charlotte's marriage with Nicholls, lasted without a break from July 1853 until late February 1854. The volume includes some of the touching notes from Charlotte's bereaved husband and father, written in response to condolences on her death. Mrs Gaskell's graphic account of her visit to Haworth in 1853 forms one of the appendices; others provide the texts of fragmentary letters, identify known forgeries, and list addenda and corrigenda for volumes 1 and 2.