Sister Novelists
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Author | : Devoney Looser |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2022-10-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1635575303 |
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.
Author | : Devoney Looser |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2017-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421422832 |
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.
Author | : Raina Telgemeier |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2014-08-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0545540666 |
Raina Telgemeier’s #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all.Raina uses her signature humor and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.
Author | : Theodore Dreiser |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2000-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0679641386 |
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.'
Author | : Walter Scott |
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Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Authorship |
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Author | : William Henry Hills |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Authorship |
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Author | : Reginald Brimley Johnson |
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Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Sir Walter Scott |
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Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Author | : Walter Scott |
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Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1825 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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