Everyone knows the famous male writers were also great friends. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway – these friendships are firmly ensconced in literary lore. But where are women in this list of iconic alliances? Were they not friends? Was Jane Austen merely a ‘’cottage dwelling spinster’’, Charlotte Bronte` ‘’an impassioned roamer of the moors’’, George Eliot an ‘’isolated thinker’’ and Virginia Woolf ‘’a melancholic genius’’? Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney were fairly certain that they were not. So, they set out to find the friendships that these celebrated authors shared with other women writers – bond which, like countless other aspects of the female experience have been ignored. The result of their investigation is the important, illuminating and greatly enjoyable ‘A Secret Sisterhood’. Unsurprisingly, they found that all four women had close literary ties with other women writers that were conveniently forgotten, distorted or just plainly suppressed. The deliberate silence engulfing the friendship between two famous women author implies that intellectual bonds between women were not desirable. Eliot is known for shining among the men in the literary circles of Victorian London, but hardly anyone knows about her friendship spanning continents, with Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was credited by Abraham Lincoln as having started the American Civil War with her iconic novel, ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’. ANSWER Q.18-Q.20 BASED ON YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE PASSAGE.
Q.18. Name some famous male writers who were great friend (1 Point)'
19.Why were the women authors exempted from the iconic list of friendships
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As using the passage,
Q.18 . Name some famous male writers who were great friend.
☞Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
Q.19 Why were the women authors exempted from the iconic list of friendships.
☞The deliberate silence engulfing the friendship between two famous women author implies that intellectual bonds between women were not desirable.
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Everyone knows the famous male writers were also great friends. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway – these friendships are firmly ensconced in literary lore. But where are women in this list of iconic alliances? Were they not friends? Was Jane Austen merely a ‘’cottage dwelling spinster’’, Charlotte Bronte` ‘’an impassioned roamer of the moors’’, George Eliot an ‘’isolated thinker’’ and Virginia Woolf ‘’a melancholic genius’’? Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney were fairly certain that they were not. So, they set out to find the friendships that these celebrated authors shared with other women writers – bond which, like countless other aspects of the female experience have been ignored. The result of their investigation is the important, illuminating and greatly enjoyable ‘A Secret Sisterhood’. Unsurprisingly, they found that all four women had close literary ties with other women writers that were conveniently forgotten, distorted or just plainly suppressed. The deliberate silence engulfing the friendship between two