Ambitious Heights: Writing, Friendship, Love - The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle

ISBN-13: 9781032263472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str.

Norma Clarke

Opis

At the heart of this book, first published in 1990, is a friendship between two women: Jane Carlyle and the novelist Geraldine Jewsbury. It was a difficult friendship, and in its difficulty lies much that is illuminating: about 19th-century domestic ideology; writing for a market, and female fame; and the complex ambivalences between women.

Spis treści

List of illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Contrary to Custom, 2. The Pride of Literature, 3. Dragoon Kinds of Women, 4. Difficulties and Danger, 5. Work, 6. The Comforts of Others, 7. Of the Female Persuasion, 8. Telling Truths, Appendix, Notes, Further Reading, Index