Women's life writing, 1700-1850
Subtitle: gender, genre and authorship
By: edited by Daniel Cook, Amy Culley
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230343078
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist; Autobiography; English prose literature; History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; Women authors; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Women and literature; Authorship; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The air of a romance: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu constructs her life / Isobel Grundy; title: Barrett writing Burney : a life among the footnotes / Catherine Delafield; title: An authoress to be let : reading Laetitia Pilkington's memoirs / Daniel Cook; title: Sociability and life-writing : Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi / Felicity A. Nussbaum; title: Journal letters and scriblerations : Frances Burney's life writing in Paris / Peter Sabor; title: A model for the British Fair : French women's life-writing in Britain, 1680-1830 / Gillian Dow; title: Autobiographical time and the spiritual "lives" of early Methodist women / Laura Davies; title: Writing female biography : Mary Hays and the life-writing of religious dissent / Felicity James; title: Prying into the recesses of history : women writers and the court memoir / Amy Culley; title: The memoirs of Harriette Wilson : A courtesan's Byronic self-fashioning / Sharon M. Setzer; title: Remembering Wollstonecraft : feminine friendship, female subjectivity and the "invention" of the feminist heroine / Mary L. Spongberg; title: Jane Austen and Charlotte Smith : biography, autobiography and the writing of women's literary history / Jennie Batchelor.