| Titre : |
Across an untried sea : discovering lives hidden in the shadow of convention and time |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Julia Markus (1939-....), Auteur |
| Editeur : |
New York (New York - États-Unis) : Alfred A. Knopf |
| Année de publication : |
2000 |
| Importance : |
xii, 331 p. |
| Présentation : |
ill. en noir, ports. |
| Format : |
25 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-679-44599-9 |
| Note générale : |
Notes bibliogr. & Index |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
Acteurs -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle -- Biographie ; Acteurs -- États-Unis -- Biographie ; Carlyle, Jane Welsh (1801-1866) -- Biographie ; Cushman, Charlotte (1816-1876) -- Biographie ; Femmes -- Histoire -- 19e siècle ; Intellectuals -- Royaume-Uni -- Biographie
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| Index. décimale : |
792.028 092 |
| Résumé : |
Julia Markus focuses in particular on the American Charlotte Cushman, the most famous English-speaking actress of her day, and on the Scottish Jane Welsh Carlyle, a brilliant London hostess who gave up private ambition to become the wife of her friend Thomas Carlyle.
Interweaving the worlds of Charlotte Cushman and Jane Carlyle - the worlds of expatriate Rome, literary London, New York, and St. Louis - Markus gathers together a number of interrelated and renowned women who were relegated in the public eye to the position of Virgin Queen (no matter how much married) or Old Maid, but who were, in fact, privately leading vibrant, independent, sexual lives. Among them: Matilda Hays, translator of George Sand; Harriet Hosmer, who resolved to become the world's first professional woman sculptor; and Emma Stebbins, whom Cushman 'married' and who created the Bethesda Fountain in New York's Central Park. Here, too, are the people who sought the friendship of Cushman and Carlyle, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Mann, Elizabeth Peabody, President Lincoln's Secretary of State William H. Seward, Geraldine Jewsbury, and Rosa Bonheur.
Making use of letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and journals of the day, many of them overlooked and unpublished, Julia Markus rediscovers lives forgotten in the shadows of convention and shows how these remarkable women - seemingly separated by nationality, class, and sexual inclination - met, formed alliances, and influenced one another, forging changes in themselves and in their time. -- Jaquette |
| Note de contenu : |
A home in Rome -- Lady love -- A fashionable wedding -- In walked Jane Carlyle -- Swearing eternal friendship: Charlotte and Geraldine and Jane -- The meeting of the half sisters -- The Roman mosaic -- The red bedroom -- Changing times -- The door of exit -- Life and letters -- Afterword |
Across an untried sea : discovering lives hidden in the shadow of convention and time [texte imprimé] / Julia Markus (1939-....), Auteur . - New York (New York - États-Unis) (New York (New York - États-Unis)) : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000 . - xii, 331 p. : ill. en noir, ports. ; 25 cm. ISBN : 978-0-679-44599-9 Notes bibliogr. & Index Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
Acteurs -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle -- Biographie ; Acteurs -- États-Unis -- Biographie ; Carlyle, Jane Welsh (1801-1866) -- Biographie ; Cushman, Charlotte (1816-1876) -- Biographie ; Femmes -- Histoire -- 19e siècle ; Intellectuals -- Royaume-Uni -- Biographie
|
| Index. décimale : |
792.028 092 |
| Résumé : |
Julia Markus focuses in particular on the American Charlotte Cushman, the most famous English-speaking actress of her day, and on the Scottish Jane Welsh Carlyle, a brilliant London hostess who gave up private ambition to become the wife of her friend Thomas Carlyle.
Interweaving the worlds of Charlotte Cushman and Jane Carlyle - the worlds of expatriate Rome, literary London, New York, and St. Louis - Markus gathers together a number of interrelated and renowned women who were relegated in the public eye to the position of Virgin Queen (no matter how much married) or Old Maid, but who were, in fact, privately leading vibrant, independent, sexual lives. Among them: Matilda Hays, translator of George Sand; Harriet Hosmer, who resolved to become the world's first professional woman sculptor; and Emma Stebbins, whom Cushman 'married' and who created the Bethesda Fountain in New York's Central Park. Here, too, are the people who sought the friendship of Cushman and Carlyle, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Mann, Elizabeth Peabody, President Lincoln's Secretary of State William H. Seward, Geraldine Jewsbury, and Rosa Bonheur.
Making use of letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and journals of the day, many of them overlooked and unpublished, Julia Markus rediscovers lives forgotten in the shadows of convention and shows how these remarkable women - seemingly separated by nationality, class, and sexual inclination - met, formed alliances, and influenced one another, forging changes in themselves and in their time. -- Jaquette |
| Note de contenu : |
A home in Rome -- Lady love -- A fashionable wedding -- In walked Jane Carlyle -- Swearing eternal friendship: Charlotte and Geraldine and Jane -- The meeting of the half sisters -- The Roman mosaic -- The red bedroom -- Changing times -- The door of exit -- Life and letters -- Afterword |
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