TY - GEN digital ID - 131685855 TI - Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers : A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century PY - 2017 SN - 9783319567501 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy and psychology of culture KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - English literature KW - Literature KW - History KW - cultuur KW - emancipatie KW - literatuur KW - vrouwen KW - gender KW - literatuurgeschiedenis KW - Engelse literatuur KW - Wollstonecraft, Mary KW - Simcox, E. KW - Hays, Mary KW - Landon, Letitia KW - Norton, Caroline KW - Gaskell, Elizabeth KW - Dixie, Florence KW - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett KW - Morgan, Sydney Owenson KW - Montagu, Mary Wortley KW - Martineau, Harriet KW - Brontë, Charlotte KW - Hemans, Felicia KW - Eliot, George KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Great Britain KW - Ireland UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131685855 AB - This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written. ER -