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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 a romantic relationship and kept a double diary, sharing the page as they shared a bed and eventually producing a 9,500-page, 29-volume story of love, life, and art in the fin de siècle. In this book, Carolyn Dever makes the case for this work as a great unknown 'novel' of the 19th century and as a bridge between George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, Victorian marriage plot and modernist experimentation.

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'Michael Field' (1884-1914) was the pseudonym of two women, the aunt and niece Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who lived and wrote together as 'lovers'. The large oeuvre contains poems, dramas, and a vast diary. Marion Thain recounts the development of a fascinating and idiosyncratic poetic persona, which became a self-reflexive study in aestheticism. The constructed life and work of 'Michael Field' is used here to deepen and complicate our understanding of many of the most distinctive aesthetic debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; a process unified by the recurring engagement with theories of time and history that structures this book. This analysis of poetry, aestheticism and the fin de siècle, through the performance of 'Michael Field', has implications that reach far beyond an understanding of one poet's work. Scholars of both Victorian and modernist literature will learn much from this innovative and compelling study.

Aestheticism (Literature) --- Decadence (Literary movement) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism --- Field, Michael --- Bradley, Katharine Harris, --- Cooper, Edith Emma, --- Leigh, Isla, --- Bradley, Katherine Harris, --- Leigh, Arran, --- Author of Borgia --- Borgia, Author of --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature