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''Michael Field'' 1884–1914 was the pseudonym of two women,
the aunt and niece Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who lived
and wrote together as ''lovers''. The large oeuvre contains poems,
dramas, and a vast diary. Marion Thain recounts the development of
a fascinating and idiosyncratic poetic persona, which became a
self-reflexive study in aestheticism. The constructed life and work
of ''Michael Field'' is used here to deepen and complicate our
understanding of many of the most distinctive
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Acknowledgements page viii
Introduction: ‘something fierce, subtle, strange, singular’
1 The diaries and dramas: life-writing and the temporal patterns of
aestheticism
2 Long Ago: the male pseudonym, fin-de-siècle sexualities and
Sappho’s historical leap
3 Sight and Song: Botticelli and ekphrastic paradox
4 Underneath the Bough: dual authorship and lyric song
5 Wild Honey from Various Thyme: apian aestheticism and the lyric
book collection
6 The Catholic poetry: the spiritual and historical ‘turn’ of the
century
Conclusion: modernism and the fin de siècle
Notes
Bibliography of material: by Katharine Bradley and Edith
Cooper
General bibliography
Index
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