Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850 [electronic resource] : Gender, Genre and Authorship /
Cook, D.editor.
Culley, A.editor.
This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Gender, Genre and Authorship; 1 The Air of a Romance: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Constructs Her Life; 2 Barrett Writing Burney: A Life among the Footnotes; 3 An Authoress to Be Let: Reading Laetitia Pilkington''s Memoirs; 4 Sociability and Life Writing: Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi; 5 Journal Letters and Scriblerations: Frances Burney''s Life Writing in Paris; 6 A Model for the British Fair? French Women''s Life Writing in Britain, 1680-1830; 7 Autobiographical Time and the Spiritual ''Lives'' of Early Methodist Women
8 Writing Female Biography: Mary Hays and the Life Writing of Religious Dissent9 ''Prying into the Recesses of History'': Women Writers and the Court Memoir; 10 The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: A Courtesan''s Byronic Self-Fashioning; 11 Remembering Wollstonecraft: Feminine Friendship, Female Subjectivity and the ''Invention'' of the Feminist Heroine; 12 Jane Austen and Charlotte Smith: Biography, Autobiography and the Writing of Women''s Literary History; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship.
Sociology.
Literature.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature, Modern.
Gender Studies.
Literature, general.
British and Irish Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.