85. Mary Taylor — Miss Miles with Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney
Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, photo credit: Rosalind Hobley
Did you know that Charlotte Brontë’s close friend Mary Taylor was also a novelist? Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, who co-authored the 2017 non-fiction book A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, join us to discuss Taylor’s 1890 novel Miss Miles: A Tale of Yorkshire Life Sixty Years Ago. Far from being a love story, Miss Miles makes the forceful argument that all women ought to have the right and the wherewithal to provide for themselves.
Discussed in this episode:
Miss Miles: A Tale of Yorkshire Life Sixty Years Ago by Mary Taylor
The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell