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Sister Novelists

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Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635575303
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Sister Novelists written by Devoney Looser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës. Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters-exact contemporaries of Jane Austen-were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published 26 books and achieved global fame. They socialized among the rich and famous, tried to hide their family's considerable debt, and fell dramatically in and out of love. Their moving letters to each other confess every detail. Because the celebrity sisters expected their renown to live on, they preserved their papers, and the secrets they contained, for any biographers to come. But history hasn't been kind to the Porters. Credit for their literary invention was given to their childhood friend, Sir Walter Scott, who never publicly acknowledged the sisters' works as his inspiration. With Scott's more prolific publication and even greater fame, the Porter sisters gradually fell from the pinnacle of celebrity to eventual obscurity. Now, Professor Devoney Looser, a Guggenheim fellow in English Literature, sets out to re-introduce the world to the authors who cleared the way for Austen, Mary Shelley, and the Brontë sisters. Capturing the Porter sisters' incredible rise, from when Anna Maria published her first book at age 14 in 1793, through to Jane's fall from the pinnacle of fame in the Victorian era, and then to the auctioning off for a pittance of the family's massive archive, Sister Novelists is a groundbreaking and enthralling biography of two pioneering geniuses in historical fiction.

The Making of Jane Austen

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Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421422832
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Jane Austen written by Devoney Looser and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a devoted Janeite or simply Jane-curious, The Making of Jane Austen will have you thinking about how a literary icon is made, transformed, and handed down from generation to generation.

Sister Carrie

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Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0679641386
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Sister Carrie written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time 'American writing, before and after Dreiser's time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin,' said H. L. Mencken. Sister Carrie, Dreiser's great first novel, transformed the conventional 'fallen woman' story into a bold and truly innovative piece of fiction when it appeared in 1900. Naïve young Caroline Meeber, a small-town girl seduced by the lure of the modern city, becomes the mistress of a traveling salesman and then of a saloon manager, who elopes with her to New York. Both its subject matter and Dreiser's unsparing, nonjudgmental approach made Sister Carrie a controversial book in its time, and the work retains the power to shock readers today. 'Sister Carrie came to housebound and airless America like a great free Western wind, and to our stuffy domesticity gave us the first fresh air since Mark Twain and Whitman,' noted Sinclair Lewis. 'Dreiser enlarged, willy-nilly, by a kind of historical accident if you will, the range of American literature,' observed Robert Penn Warren. '[Sister Carrie] is a vivid and absorbing work of art.'

The Good Sister

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Author : Chris Morgan Jones
Publisher : Mantle
ISBN 13 : 1760781533
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Good Sister written by Chris Morgan Jones and published by Mantle. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you had the chance to escape from your life and, better still, fight for a cause you believe in, would you take it? At seventeen, disenfranchized with her life in London, with a mother too sick to care for her and a father too broken to, Sofia Mounir packs her bags and heads to the only place that makes sense: Raqqa. A place where she can be part of something greater than herself. Where she can help build a new society from the ground up. But what happens when that world isn’t everything you dreamed of? When you realize that other people’s intentions might not be as pure as your own? And what happens when you’re not allowed to leave alive?

Lives of Eminent Novelists and Dramatists

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Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of Eminent Novelists and Dramatists written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Writer

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Writer written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Writer

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Author : William Henry Hills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book The Writer written by William Henry Hills and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850

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Author : Devoney Looser
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801887054
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 written by Devoney Looser and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.

The Women Novelists

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Author : Reginald Brimley Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Women Novelists written by Reginald Brimley Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Llives of the Novelists

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Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Llives of the Novelists written by Sir Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lives of the Novelists

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Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Lives of the Novelists written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biographical and critical notices of eminent novelists

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Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Biographical and critical notices of eminent novelists written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prose Works: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelists, & other distinguished persons; v. 1; Memoir of Samuel Richardson; Henry Fielding; Tobias Smollett; Richard Cumberland; Oliver Goldsmith; Samuel Johnson; Lawrence Sterne; Horace Walpole; Clara Reeve; Mrs. Ann Radcliffe; Alain Rene Le Sage; Charles Johnstone; Robert Bage

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Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

Book Synopsis Prose Works: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelists, & other distinguished persons; v. 1; Memoir of Samuel Richardson; Henry Fielding; Tobias Smollett; Richard Cumberland; Oliver Goldsmith; Samuel Johnson; Lawrence Sterne; Horace Walpole; Clara Reeve; Mrs. Ann Radcliffe; Alain Rene Le Sage; Charles Johnstone; Robert Bage by : Walter Scott

Download or read book Prose Works: Biographical memoirs of eminent novelists, & other distinguished persons; v. 1; Memoir of Samuel Richardson; Henry Fielding; Tobias Smollett; Richard Cumberland; Oliver Goldsmith; Samuel Johnson; Lawrence Sterne; Horace Walpole; Clara Reeve; Mrs. Ann Radcliffe; Alain Rene Le Sage; Charles Johnstone; Robert Bage written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Once We Were Sisters

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Author : Sheila Kohler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143129295
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Once We Were Sisters written by Sheila Kohler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE’S BEST NEW BOOKS “A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly.” —The BBC “An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss.” —People When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood—one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. In her signature spare and incisive prose, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate, Crossways, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother, at turns distant and suffocating. We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves—lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices. Kohler evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks, even after death. “A beautiful and disturbing memoir of a beloved sister who died at the age of thirty-nine in circumstances that strongly suggest murder. . . . Highly recommended.” —Joyce Carol Oates

Ballantyne's Novelist's Library

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Author : James Ballantyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Ballantyne's Novelist's Library written by James Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pearson's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pearson's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Novels and novelists; chapters on the Waverley novels, including the recent editions, with other novel articles

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Author : Novels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Novels and novelists; chapters on the Waverley novels, including the recent editions, with other novel articles written by Novels and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: