| Description |
vi, 319 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Authorizing the autobiographical / Shari Benstock -- Women's autobiographical selves : theory and practice / Susan Stanford Friedman -- My statue, my self : autobiographical writings of Afro-American women / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- Simone de Beauvoir : aging and its discontents / Kathleen Woodward -- Invincible mediocrity : the private selves of public women / Jane Marcus -- Eighteenth-century women's autobiographical commonplaces / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- Female rhetorics / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- Pedagogy as self-expression in Mary Wolstonecraft : exorcising the past, finding a voice / Mitzi Myers -- Representing two cultures : Jane Austen's letters / Deborah Kaplan -- Dorothy Wordsworth's journals : putting herself down / James Holt McGavran, Jr. -- Charlotte Forten Grimké and the search for a public voice / Joanne M. Braxton -- "Wider than the sky" : public presence and private self in Dickinson, James, and Woolf / Nancy Walker. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English prose literature -- Women authors. |
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American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American prose literature -- Women authors. |
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Women authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Women authors, American -- Biography. |
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Women authors, English -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Women authors, English -- Biography. |
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Women -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Women. |
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Great Britain. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Women -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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United States. |
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature. |
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English-speaking countries. |
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Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Autobiography -- Women authors. |
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Self in literature.
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Self in literature. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Benstock, Shari, 1944-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Private self. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1988 (OCoLC)579888852 |
| ISBN |
0807817910 alkaline paper |
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9780807817919 alkaline paper |
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0807842184 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780807842188 paperback alkaline paper |
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