1st Edition
Records of Girlhood An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Childhoods
Edited By Valerie Sanders
Copyright 2000
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-century literary women. These are strongly individualised descriptions by women who breached the cultural prohibitions against self writing, especially in the attention given to psychologically formative incidents and memories. Several offer detailed... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Amelia Opie; Dorothea Herbert; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary Somerville; Lady Caroline Lamb; ’Charlotte Elizabeth’; Anna Jameson; Mary Howitt; Sara Coleridge; Harriet Martineau; Fanny Kemble; Elizabeth Sewell; Frances Power Cobbe; Charlotte M. Yonge; Annie Besant; Index.
Biography
Valerie Sanders
'As well as being a useful resource for scholars of the nineteenth century in general, and of women's autobiography in particular, Records of Girlhood is a consistently entertaining and illuminating volume which deserves to be widely read.' Journal of Victorian Culture
