Companion to women's historical writing
By: edited by Mary Spongberg, Ann Curthoys, Barbara Caine.
Contributors: Spongberg, Mary, 1965-; Curthoys, Ann.; Caine, Barbara.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9781403915085
Subjects: English prose literature -- Women authors -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Literature and history -- English-speaking countries -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Historiography -- English-speaking countries -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; American prose literature -- Women authors -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Commonwealth prose literature -- Women authors -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Women -- English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Historical fiction, American -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Historical fiction, English -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Women historians -- English-speaking countries -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; English-speaking countries -- Historiography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: "This comprehensive reference work traces the history of women's engagement with the production of history from antiquity to the present. It contains interpretative essays from almost 60 contributors and surveys the full range of historical writings in which women have engaged, including biographical and autobiographical writings, stories of women worthies, historical fictions, letter-writing and travelogue as well as a range of more conventional kinds of history. It also assesses women's contribution to national historiographies and includes biographical entries on women historians."

"In challenging the traditional narrow definition of 'history', the Companion explores the way in which women writers have negotiated and changed this ostensibly masculinist genre, and explores the relationship between feminism and the development of 'women's history'." "The Companion to Women's Historical Writing is a reference tool and an introduction to women's historical literature."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.