Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography
Subtitle: the poetics and politics of life writing
By: Linda H. Peterson.
Series: Victorian literature and culture series
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Autobiography -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.; Autobiography -- Women authors.; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Description: "Arguing that women's autobiography does not represent a singular separate tradition but instead embraces multiple lineages, Linda H. Peterson explores the poetics and politics of these diverse forms of life writing.

She carefully analyzes the polemical Autobiography of Harriet Martineau and Personal Recollections of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, the missionary memoirs that challenge Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the Romantic autobiographies of the poet and poetess that Barrett Browning reconstructs in Aurora Leigh, the professional life stories of Margaret Oliphant and her contemporaries, and the Brontean and Eliotian bifurcations of Mary Cholmondeley's memoirs."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-248) and index.