Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.
Contents
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.
