SuperHeroBooks - Ambitious Heights: Writing, Friendship, Love : The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Carlyle

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 820.99287 EAN: 9780415000529 ISBN: 0415000521 Label: Routledge Manufacturer: Routledge Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 1990-11 Publisher: Routledge Studio: Routledge
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Category: Literature/Feminism/History Comment: How did the Victorian woman cope with the image of herself as a writer? What were the constraints on female friendships in a world centered on the preeminence of the husband? How significant for an ambitious woman were her politics about men? At the heart of the book is a friendship between two women: Jane Carlyle, and the novelist Geraldine Jewsbury. But it was a difficult friendship; and in its difficulty lies much that is illuminating: about 19th century domestic ideology: about writing for a market, and female fame and about the complex ambivalences between women. Examining aspects of their lives, writing, and relationships, alongside those two other writers...Felicia Hermans and Geraldine's sister, Maria Jane...Norma Clarke provides a subtle and illuminating discussion of the possibilities that were open to women in the Victorian age. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: At the heart of this book is a friendship between two women: Jane Carlyle, and the novelist Geraldine Jewsbury. It was a difficult friendship, and in its difficulty lies much that is illuminating about 19th century domestic ideology; about writing for a market, and female fame, and about the complex ambivalences between women and the constriants that shaped the support they were able to give each other. The author explores this friendship in the light of an earlier friendship of two professional writing women, that between Geraldine's sister, Maria Jane Jewsbury, and the enormously popular poet, Felicia Hemans. Successful in their own day, these two significant women writers have been almost lost to literary history. Their relationship in some ways provided Geraldine with a model for her friendship with Jane Carlyle. Examining aspects of these women's lives, writing, and relationships, exporing the crucial differences in their politics about men, Norma Clarke provides a subtle and illuminating discussion of the possibilities open to middle-class women in the Victorian age.