{"product_id":"9781634310222","title":"Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind","description":"\u003cb\u003eTwo female writers and best friends bring to light the literary friendships of four iconic female authors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through letters and diaries that have never been published before, \u003ci\u003eA Secret Sisterhood\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a foreword by Margaret Atwood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A thought-provoking meditation on literary friendship as well as engagingly intimate glimpses of four of the world’s finest writers.”—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A medley of vivid narratives.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Midorikawa and Sweeney have committed an exceptional act of literary espionage. English literature owes them a great debt.” —\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A vital and necessary contribution to women's history, literary history, and the literature of friendship.”—Kate Bolick, author of \u003ci\u003eSpinster: Making a Life of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Pitchstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130929561840,"sku":"9781634310222","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781634310222_p0.jpg?v=1763681023","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781634310222","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}