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

by Norma Clarke

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032263539
• ISBN13: 9781032263533
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"