A Secret Sisterhood : The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf Condition:Well Read and her brother

and her brother

Heidi Fleiss

Contemporary Sociology

With insightful introductions to the writers and their work

salacious scandals

A Secret Sisterhood : The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf Condition:Well Read and her brotherMale literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the worlds 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 the friendship between Jane Austen and one of the family servants, playwright Anne Sharp; the