Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885
Catherine Delafield, "Women’s Letters as Life Writing 1840–1885 "
English | ISBN: 0367859114 | 2019 | 194 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0367859114 | 2019 | 194 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Delany, Catherine Winkworth, Jane Austen and George Eliot, situating these women in their epistolary culture and in relation to one another as exemplary women of the period. She traces the role of their editors in the publishing process and considers how a model of representation in letters emerged from the publication of Burney’s
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