TY - BOOK ID - 77875186 TI - Private sphere to world stage from Austen to Eliot PY - 2008 SN - 135115138X 1281332550 9786611332556 0754690040 9780754690047 9781281332554 1351151398 9781351151399 9780754661740 9780754690047 0754661741 6611332553 1409474968 1351151371 9781351151382 1351151401 9781351151405 9780815391159 PB - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Women and literature KW - Women KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Books and reading UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77875186 AB - Elizabeth Sabiston examines works by Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontèˆ, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, offering a fresh perspective on the transition of women writers from the private to the public sphere. What emerges, particularly in comparisons of the factory novels of Gaskell with the slavery writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, is a portrait of the subversive and influential strategies these writers used to transcend national and gender boundaries. ER -