Chains of Love and Beauty: The Diary of Michael Field

by Carolyn Dever

Book Overview

Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as "Michael Field"--and who were partners and lovers for decades--is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literature 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691264775
• ISBN13: 9780691264776
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"