British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 [electronic resource] : Friendship, Community, and Collaboration /
Culley, A.author.
British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources to demonstrate women's innovative approach to self-representation. It examines canonical writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and Helen Maria Williams, amongst others.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: 'Their Lives Spoke More Than Volumes': The Life Writing of Early Methodist Women; 1 The Life Writing of Early Methodist Women; 2 Mary Fletcher and the Family of Methodism; 3 Testimony and Transcription in the Life of Sarah Ryan; 4 'The Staff of My Old Age': Memorialising Sarah Lawrence; 5 'They Live Yea They Live Forever': Mary Tooth's Methodist History; Part II: 'Signed With Her Own Hand': The Life Writing of Late Eighteenth-Century and Regency Courtesans; 6 The Life Writing of Late Eighteenth-Century and Regency Courtesans
7 Female Friendship in the Auto/biography of Sophia Baddeley and Elizabeth Steele8 The Literary Family and the 'Aristocracy of Genius' in the Memoirs of Mary Robinson; 9 'Such is the Sad Trials Left for the Surviver': The Journal of Elizabeth Fox; 10 A Life in Opposition: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson; Part III: 'Heard in the Sighs of General Mourning': The Life Writing of British Women and the French Revolution; 11 The Life Writing of British Women and the French Revolution; 12 'The Good Will Remain Written in Brass': Helen Maria Williams' Collective Memories
13 'The Little Hero of Each Tale': Mary Wollstonecraft's Travelogue and Revolutionary Auto/biography14 A Vindication of Self and Other: The Journal of Grace Dalrymple Elliott; 15 'To Rally Round the Throne': Saving the Nation in Charlotte West's Residence; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources to demonstrate women's innovative approach to self-representation. It examines canonical writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and Helen Maria Williams, amongst others.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Social history.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Social History.
Gender Studies.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Fiction.