Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-248) and index.
On the Victorian "origins" of women's autobiography: reconstructing the traditions -- The polemics of piety: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna's Personal recollections, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, and the ideological uses of spiritual autobiography -- "The feelings and claims of little people": heroic missionary memoirs, domestic(ated) spiritual autobiography, and Jane Eyre: an autobiography -- "For my better self": auto/biographies of the poetess, and the Prelude of the poet laureate, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh -- Family business: Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography as professional artist's life -- Mary Cholmondeley's bifurcated autobiography: Eliotian and Brontëan traditions in Red pottage and Under one roof.
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Autobiography-- Political aspects-- Great Britain.
Autobiography-- Women authors.
English prose literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English prose literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Autobiography-- Political aspects-- Great Britain.
Autobiography-- Women authors.
English prose literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
English prose literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Great Britain, History, Victoria, 1837-1901, Biography, History and criticism.