"Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Delany, Catherine Winkworth, Jane Austen and George Eliot, situating these women in their epistolary culture and in relat...

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Main Author:	Delafield, Catherine (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York Routledge 2020
Series:	The nineteenth century series
Subjects:	English letters / Women authors / History and criticism Women authors, English / 19th century / Correspondence / History and criticism Autobiography / Women authors / History and criticism Letter writing / England / History / 19th century
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	"Examining letter collections published in the second half of the nineteenth century, Catherine Delafield rereads the life-writing of Frances Burney, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Delany, Catherine Winkworth, Jane Austen and George Eliot, situating these women in their epistolary culture and in relation to one another as exemplary women of the period. She traces the role of their editors in the publishing process and considers how a model of representation in letters emerged from the publication of Burney's Diary and Letters and Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Brontë. Delafield contends that new correspondences emerge between editors/biographers and their biographical subjects, and that the original epistolary pact was remade in collaboration with family memorials in private and with reviewers in public. Women's Letters as Life Writing addresses issues of survival and choice when an archive passes into family hands, tracing the means by which women's lives came to be written and rewritten in letters in the nineteenth century"--
Item Description:	Description based on print version record
Physical Description:	1 online resource (pages cm.)
ISBN:	9781003015710 1003015719