Chains of love and beauty : the diary of Michael Field / Carolyn Dever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dever, Carolyn, author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Field, Michael. Works and days.

Field, Michael.

Bradley, Katharine Harris, 1846-1914.

Bradley, Katharine Harris.

Cooper, Edith Emma, 1862-1913.

Cooper, Edith Emma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Michael Field, the renowned late-Victorian poet, was well known to be the pseudonym of Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and her niece, Edith Cooper (1862-1913). Less well known is that for three decades, the women privately maintained a romantic relationship and kept a double diary, sharing the page as they shared a bed and eventually producing a 9,500-page, 29-volume story of love, life, and art in the fin de siècle. In this book, Carolyn Dever makes the case for this work as a great unknown 'novel' of the 19th century and as a bridge between George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, Victorian marriage plot and modernist experimentation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Editorial Method, Key Figures, and Familiar Names

Introduction: "Axial in the Spin of Life"

Chapter 1 "A Rebellious Hand," 1867-68 and 1888-89

Chapter 2 "The Hot Hands of the Modern," 1892-93

Chapter 3 "The Infamous Cliché," 1897

Chapter 4 "Lilies and Light and Liquor," 1899

Chapter 5 "Venite Adoremus," 1906-7

Chapter 6 The Ends: 1913, 1914, and Beyond

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 6, 2023).

ISBN:

9780691234977

0691234973

OCLC:

1269410466