LEADER 04554nam 22006015 450 001 9910255092503321 005 20201005195957.0 010 $a3-319-56750-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-56750-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000001040472 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-56750-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5143362 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001040472 100 $a20171109d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBiographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers$b[electronic resource] $eA Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century /$fedited by Brenda Ayres 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Life Writing,$x2730-9185 311 $a3-319-56749-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction; or, What You Will -- Genteel Appropriations of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689?1762): Sex, Sensibility, and Taste in Victorian Family Biography by Magdalena Nerio -- A Vindication of the Woman Known as Mary Wollstonecraft (1759?1797) -- The Constructed Letters of Mary Hays (1759?1843) -- So Irish; so modish, so mixtish, so wild?: Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) (1781?1838) and The Makings of a Life.-Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802?1838) -- Whose Poetess?The After-Lives of Felicia Hemans (1793?1835): Biographical Misconstructions.-?Stuck Through with a Pin and Beautifully Preserved?: Curating the Life of ?Elizabeth Barrett Browning? -- Harriet Martineau (1802?1876) Autobiography, Biography, and Literary Legacies -- Caroline Norton (1808?1877): The Injured Wife, Scandal, and the Politics of Feminist Memory -- The Biographer as Biographee: Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) -- Charlotte Brontė (1816?1855): (Un)Masked Author to Mythic Woman -- An Unconventional and Contradictory Life: Lady Florence Dixie -- A Woman Whom Men Could More Than Love?: Transfiguring the Unlovely in George Eliot (1819?1880) -- Irony upon Irony: The Persistence of Gordon Haight?s Perceptions of Edith Simcox (1844?1901). 330 $aThis book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontė, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Life Writing,$x2730-9185 606 $aLiterature, Modern?19th century 606 $aBritish literature 606 $aLiterature?History and criticism 606 $aCulture 606 $aGender 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/821000 606 $aBritish and Irish Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/833000 606 $aLiterary History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/813000 606 $aCulture and Gender$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411210 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?19th century. 615 0$aBritish literature. 615 0$aLiterature?History and criticism. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aGender. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aBritish and Irish Literature. 615 24$aLiterary History. 615 24$aCulture and Gender. 676 $a809.034 702 $aAyres$b Brenda$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255092503321 996 $aBiographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers$92026642 997 $aUNINA