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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451475303321

Titolo

Kindred hands [[electronic resource] ] : letters on writing by British and American women authors, 1865-1935 / / edited by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006

ISBN

1-58729-662-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Cognard-BlackJennifer <1969->

WallsElizabeth MacLeod <1974->

Disciplina

823/.8080357

Soggetti

Women authors, English

Women authors, American

English prose literature - 19th century

English prose literature - 20th century

American prose literature - 19th century

American prose literature - 20th century

English letters

American letters

Authorship

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

C o n t e n t s; Introduction; 1. Harriet Beecher Stowe; 2. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; 3. Rebecca Harding Davis; 4. Mary Abigail Dodge [Gail Hamilton]; 5. Mary Elizabeth Braddon; 6. Mary Cholmondeley and Rhoda Broughton; 7. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; 8. Mary St. Leger Kingsley Harrison [Lucas Malet]; 9. Henrietta Stannard, Mari Corelli and Annesley Kenealy; 10. Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright [George Egerton]; 11. Rosamund Marriott Watson [Graham R. Tomson]; 12. Palma Pederson; 13. Jessie Redmon Fauset; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Kindred Hands, a collection of previously unpublished letters by women writers, explores the act and art of writing from diverse perspectives and experiences.  The letters illuminate such issues as authorship,



aesthetics, collaboration, inspiration, and authorial intent. By focusing on letters that deal with authorship, the editors reveal a multiplicity of perspectives on female authorship that would otherwise require visits to archives and special collections.    Representing some of the most important female writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including transatlantic cor