Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney presents and signs A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf 

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 Bronte; 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. (Houghton Mifflin)

Author Elizabeth L. Silver will be leading a conversation between authors Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney about Secret Sisterhood, and then will be joined by Julia Fierro and Caeli Wolfson to talk about their present-day friendship.

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Event date: 
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91101
A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf By Emily Midorikawa, Emma Claire Sweeney, Margaret Atwood (Foreword by) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780544883734
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Mariner Books - October 17th, 2017

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