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Ambitious Heights: Writing, Friendship, Love â€“ The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle

By (author) Norma Clarke

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How did the Victorian woman cope with the image of herself as a writer? What were the constraints on female friendships in a world centred on the pre-eminence of the husband? How significant for an ambitious woman were her politics about men? At the heart of this book, originally published in 1990, 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 nineteenth-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 of two other writers â€“ Felicia Hemans and Geraldineâ€™s sister, Maria Jane â€“ Norma Clarke provides a subtle and illuminating discussion of the possibilities that were open to women in the Victorian age.

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