Publisher's Synopsis
Drawing on letters and diaries, some of which have never been published before, this book will reveal Jane Austens bond with a family servant, the amateur playwright Anne Sharp, how Charlotte Bronte was inspired by the daring feminist Mary Taylor, the transatlantic relationship between George Eliot and the author of Uncle Toms Cabin, 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.
