Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850, 2012
Gender, Genre and Authorship

This collection discusses British and Irish life writings by women in the period 1700-1850. It argues for the importance of women's life writing as part of the culture and practice of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complex relationships between constructions of femininity, life writing forms and models of authorship.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Gender, Genre, and Authorship; D.Cook & A.Culley The Air of a Romance: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Constructs her Life; I.Grundy Barrett Writing Burney: A Life Among the Footnotes; C.Delafield An Authoress to be Let: Reading Laetitia Pilkington's Memoirs; D.Cook Sociability and Life-Writing: Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi; F.A.Nussbaum Journal Letters and Scriblerations: Frances Burney's Life Writing in Paris; P.Sabor A Model for the British Fair? French Women's Life-Writing in Britain, 1680-1830; G.Dow Autobiographical Time and the Spiritual 'Lives' of Early Methodist Women; L.Davies Writing Female Biography: Mary Hays and the Life-Writing of Religious Dissent; F.James 'Prying into the Recesses of History': Women Writers and the Court Memoir; A.Culley The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: A Courtesan's Byronic Self-Fashioning; S.M.Setzer Remembering Wollstonecraft: Feminine Friendship, Female Subjectivity and the 'Invention' of the Feminist Heroine; M.L.Spongberg Jane Austen and Charlotte Smith: Biography, Autobiography and the Writing of Women's Literary History; J.Batchelor Select Bibliography Index

JENNIE BATCHELOR Reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Kent, UK LAURA DAVIES Research Fellow at the Centre for Christianity and Culture, University of Oxford, UK CATHERINE DELAFIELD Independent Scholar, UK GILLIAN DOW Lecturer in English, University of Southampton, UK ISOBEL GRUNDY Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada FELICITY JAMES Lecturer in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth -Century Literature, University of Leicester, UK FELICITY A. NUSSBAUM Distinguished Professor of English, UCLA, USA PETER SABOR Professor of English, McGill University, Canada SHARON M. SETZER Professor of English, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA MARY L. SPONBERG Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Australia