Chains of Love and Beauty av Carolyn Dever

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<p><b>Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as ¿Michael Field¿¿and who were partners and lovers for decades¿is one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literature</b><br><br>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, twenty-nine-volume story of love, life, and art in the fin de si¿e. In <i>Chains of Love and Beauty</i>, the first book about the diary, Carolyn Dever makes the case for this work as a great unknown ¿novel¿ of the nineteenth century and as a bridge between George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, Victorian marriage plot and modernist experimentation.<br><br>While Bradley and Cooper remained committed to publi