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020			_a9781800643260
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020			_aOBP.0276
024	7		_a10.11647/OBP.0276 _2doi
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100	1		_aHalloran, William F. _4auth _91560388
245	1	0	_aWilliam Sharp and "Fiona Macleod" _bA Life
260			_aCambridge _bOpen Book Publishers _c2022
300			_a1 electronic resource (474 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aWilliam Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. A Scottish poet, novelist, biographer, and editor, he began in 1893 to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod who became far more than a pseudonym. Enlisting his sister to provide the Macleod handwriting, he used the voluminous Fiona correspondence to fashion a distinctive personality for a talented, but remote and publicity-shy woman. Sometimes she was his cousin and other times his lover, and whenever suspicions arose, he vehemently denied he was Fiona. For more than a decade he duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, William Butler Yeats, and E. C. Stedman. Drawing extensively on his letters, his wife Elizabeth Sharp's Memoir, and accounts by friends and associates, this biography provides a lucid and intimate account of William Sharp's life, from his rejection of the dour religion of his Scottish boyhood, his turn to spiritualism, to his role in the Scottish Celtic Revival in the mid-nineties. The biography illuminates his wide network of close male and female friendships, through which he developed advanced ideas about the place of women in society, the constraints of marriage, the fluidity of gender identity, and the complexity of the human psyche. Uniquely this biography reveals the autobiographical content of the writings of Fiona Macleod, the remarkable extent to which Sharp used the feminine pseudonym to disguise his telling and retelling the complex story of his extramarital love affair with a beautiful and brilliant woman. The biography illuminates not only the talented and conflicted William Sharp, but also the cultural landscape of Great Britain in the late-nineteenth century. From late Pre-Raphaelitism through the ""yellow nineties" and on to the excesses of the early twentieth century, Sharp dabbled in all the movements that comprised what some have called the Age of Decadence.
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ _2cc _uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
546			_aEnglish
650		7	_ac 1800 to c 1900 _2bicssc _9914072
650		7	_aDiaries, letters & journals _2bicssc _91031153
650		7	_aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers _2bicssc _988221
650		7	_aLiterary studies: poetry & poets _2bicssc _9848559
650		7	_aLiterature: history & criticism _2bicssc _9854476
653			_aFiona Macleod;Scottish poet;William Sharp
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856	4	0	_uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/6fdc50bc-2b36-4357-95f0-b3dec8ae5e50/9781800643284.pdf _70 _zOpen Access: OAPEN Library, download the publication
856	4	0	_uhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53190 _70 _zOpen Access: OAPEN Library: description of the publication
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