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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.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- English literature --- Literature --- History --- cultuur --- emancipatie --- literatuur --- vrouwen --- gender --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Engelse literatuur --- Wollstonecraft, Mary --- Simcox, E. --- Hays, Mary --- Landon, Letitia --- Norton, Caroline --- Gaskell, Elizabeth --- Dixie, Florence --- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett --- Morgan, Sydney Owenson --- Montagu, Mary Wortley --- Martineau, Harriet --- Brontë, Charlotte --- Hemans, Felicia --- Eliot, George --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain --- Ireland