Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 466 pages) |
Contents |
Introduction to the Oxford Edition of Miss Miles; Bibliography; List of Yorkshire Terms and German Phrases; MISS MILES; I. Die Goldene zeit des Wardens; II. Hold fast to the Faith without Wavering; III. Heaven lies about us in our Infancy; IV. And Fades into the Light of Common Day; V. De Profundis; VI. The Common Lot; VII. Daylight to Fight by; VIII. And Hope again Elastic Springs; IX. Lonely and Helpless; X. Their Words are Sweet as Honey; XI. Trip on Farther, Pretty Sweeting; XII. Quips and Cranks and Wanton Wiles; XIII. In the Valley of the Shadow; XIV. The Tumult of the People |
Summary |
The close friendship between Charlotte Bronte and Mary Taylor began in boarding school and lasted for the rest of their lives. It was Mary Taylor, in fact, who inspired Bronte to leave her oppressive parsonage home and go to Brussels, the eventual setting for her novel, Villette. Mary herself led a much less restricted life, especially in her later years as a feminist essayist who strongly urged women to consider their "first duty" to be working to support themselves. In Miss Miles, her only novel, Taylor breaks with tradition by creating a profoundly feminist and morally intense wor |
Analysis |
English fiction |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvi) |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Subject |
Friendship -- Fiction
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FICTION -- Coming of Age.
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Friendship
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Genre/Form |
Bildungsromans
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Fiction
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Bildungsromans.
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Bildungsromans.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Murray, Janet Horowitz, 1946-
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LC no. |
90031290 |
ISBN |
9780198023272 |
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0198023278 |
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9786610605521 |
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6610605521 |
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1280605529 |
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9781280605529 |
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0195362349 |
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9780195362343 |
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