Communities of women : An idea in fiction (1978)

by Nina Auerbach

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Auerbach explores how the fellowship of sisterhood as it occurs or fails to occur in historical reality is reflected in famous novels such as those of Louisa May Alcott (Little Women), Charlotte Bronte (Villette), Henry James (The Bostonians), Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) and Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie).… (more)

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Communities of women : An idea in fiction

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Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction

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1978

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For the ongoing community of women
at the Radcliffe Institute
And for the larger, still-growing community of women
teaching and writing in America

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Initiation into a band of brothers is a traditional privilege symbolized by uniforms, rituals, and fiercely shared loyalties; but sisterhood, the subject of this book, looks often like a blank exclusion.

--Introduction

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Auerbach explores how the fellowship of sisterhood as it occurs or fails to occur in historical reality is reflected in famous novels such as those of Louisa May Alcott (Little Women), Charlotte Bronte (Villette), Henry James (The Bostonians), Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) and Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie).

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