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- catalog abstract ""Arguing that women's autobiography does not represent a singular separate tradition but instead embraces multiple lineages, Linda H. Peterson explores the poetics and politics of these diverse forms of life writing. She carefully analyzes the polemical Autobiography of Harriet Martineau and Personal Recollections of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, the missionary memoirs that challenge Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the Romantic autobiographies of the poet and poetess that Barrett Browning reconstructs in Aurora Leigh, the professional life stories of Margaret Oliphant and her contemporaries, and the Brontean and Eliotian bifurcations of Mary Cholmondeley's memoirs."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11369232.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Arguing that women's autobiography does not represent a singular separate tradition but instead embraces multiple lineages, Linda H. Peterson explores the poetics and politics of these diverse forms of life writing. She carefully analyzes the polemical Autobiography of Harriet Martineau and Personal Recollections of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, the missionary memoirs that challenge Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the Romantic autobiographies of the poet and poetess that Barrett Browning reconstructs in Aurora Leigh, the professional life stories of Margaret Oliphant and her contemporaries, and the Brontean and Eliotian bifurcations of Mary Cholmondeley's memoirs."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-248) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 256 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0813918839 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Victorian literature and culture series".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain History Victoria, 1837-1901 Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "828/.80809492072 21".
- catalog subject "Autobiography Political aspects Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Autobiography Women authors.".
- catalog subject "English prose literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English prose literature Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR788.W65 P47 1999".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography : the poetics and politics of life writing / Linda H. Peterson.".
- catalog type "text".