{"product_id":"9781781317259","title":"A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Secret Sisterhood \u003c\/i\u003euncovers the hidden literary friendships of the world’s most respected female authors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e of \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In their first book together, Midorikawa and Sweeney resurrect these literary collaborations, which were sometimes illicit, scandalous and volatile; sometimes supportive, radical or inspiring; but always, until now, tantalisingly consigned to the shadows.","brand":"Aurum Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114330046704,"sku":"9781781317259","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781781317259_p0.jpg?v=1763715516","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781781317259","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}