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  1. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy
    the story of Little Women and why it still matters
    Author: Rioux, Anne Boyd
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  W.W. Norton & Company, New York ; London

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    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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  2. A secret sisterhood
    the literary friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronté, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
    Author: Midorikawa, Emily; Sweeney, Emma Claire; Atwood, Margaret
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston ; New York

    "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... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "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 Bronté; 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"... "A fascinating, inspirational look at the relationships between some of our best-loved female authors and their little-known literary collaborators and friends"...

     
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  3. The romance of elsewhere
    essays
    Author: Freed, Lynn
    Published: June 2017
    Publisher:  Counterpoint, Berkeley, CA

    "Lynn Freed's deeply personal essays explore our most quintessential question: What makes a home? From very early on she had imagined for herself an ideal life: a stranger in a strange place: someone just arrived, just about to leave, and always with... more

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    "Lynn Freed's deeply personal essays explore our most quintessential question: What makes a home? From very early on she had imagined for herself an ideal life: a stranger in a strange place: someone just arrived, just about to leave, and always with a home to return to. As a teenager on an exchange program to the U.S., she had made up fantastic reasons to escape high school in the suburbs and spend her time in New York City. Accepting a marriage proposal as a young woman, partly because it promised just such a life - away from South Africa, where she'd grown up, and in New York as a graduate student - she found herself both restless and unmoored. At home neither in the place nor in the marriage. What she did find, in the end, was a true marriage between writing and travel, travel and identity. Traversing decades and continents and back again, The Romance of Elsewhere captures the dilemma of the expat and does so with Freed's signature honesty and humor. She takes on subjects as disparate as Disneyland, lovers, eco-tourism, shopping, serious illness, and the anomaly of writers who blossom into full power only in old age. Lynn has been publishing these pieces for the past three decades, and this new collection further establishes her as a renowned voice in memoir and the exploration of identity"...

     
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  4. Romantic outlaws
    the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley
    Author: Gordon, Charlotte
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Hutchinson, London

  5. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy
    the story of Little Women and why it still matters
    Author: Rioux, Anne Boyd
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  W.W. Norton & Company, New York ; London

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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  6. Aphrodite's daughters
    three modernist poets of the Harlem Renaissance
    Author: Honey, Maureen
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey

    "Aphrodite's Daughters brings to dramatic life three lyrical poets of the Harlem Renaissance whose work was among the earliest to display erotic passion as a source of empowerment for women. Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V.... more

     

    "Aphrodite's Daughters brings to dramatic life three lyrical poets of the Harlem Renaissance whose work was among the earliest to display erotic passion as a source of empowerment for women. Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery are framed as bold pioneers whose verse opened new frontiers into women's sexuality at the dawn of a new century. Honey describes Grimké construction of a Sapphic deity inspiring acolytes to express forbidden same-sex desire while she outlines Bennett's exploration of sexual pleasure and pain and Cowdery's frank depiction of bisexual erotics. Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery, she argues, embraced the lyric "I" as an expression of their modernity as artists, women, and participants in the New Negro Movement by highlighting the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength and transcendence. Honey juxtaposes each poet's creative work against her life writing, personal archive, and appearances in the black press. These new source materials dramatically illuminate verse that has largely appeared without its biographical context or modernist roots. Honey's highly nuanced bio-critical portraits of this unique cadre of New Negro poets reveal the fascinating complexity of their private lives, and she creates absorbing narratives for all three as they experienced sexual awakening in lesbian, heterosexual, and bisexual contexts. The vivid interplay between intimate, racial and artistic currents in their lives makes Aphrodite's Daughters a compelling story of three courageous women who dared to be sexually alive New Negro artists paving the way toward our own era. "...

     
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