| Description |
1 online resource (x, 393 pages) |
| Series |
Russian literature and thought |
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Russian literature and thought.
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| Contents |
An Autobiography / Nadezhda Sokhanskaia -- An Autobiography / Aleksandra Kobiakova -- Reminiscences of institute life / Sofia Khvoshchinskaia -- Notes / Liubov Nikulina-Kositskaia -- An Autobiography / Varvara Kashevarova-Rudneva -- House calls: a day in the practice of a duma woman doctor in St. Petersburg / Ekaterina Slanskaia -- From a family chronicle: reminiscences for children and grandchildren / Natalia Grot -- Reminiscences / Praskovia Tatlina -- From the distant past: fragments from childhood memories / Elizaveta Lvova -- Bygone days / Emiliia Pimenova -- To my reader / Anastasiia Verbitskaia -- A Bibliographical note -- Select bibliography of nineteenth-century Russian women's autobiographies |
| Summary |
These autobiographies span the century and cover a wide range of classes and professions. Among the authors are women of the gentry (Natalia Grot), the merchant class (Aleksandra Kobiakova), the lower bureaucracy (Praskovia Tatlina), and the serf class (Liubov Nikulina-Kositskaia). They include writers (Elizaveta Lvova, Anastasiia Verbitskaia), a journalist (Emiliia Pimenova), an actress in the provincial theater (Liubov Nikulina-Kositskaia), and two physicians (Varvara Kashevarova-Rudneva, Ekaterina Slanskaia) - one the first woman to earn a medical degree in Russia, the other a doctor in the slums of St. Petersburg. Their memoirs show their fierce engagement in the debate over woman's nature, her duties and responsibilities, her upbringing, and her place in society. Each autobiography is introduced and annotated by Toby Clyman and Judith Vowles, who also provide a general introduction that situates these writings within the Russian and Western autobiographical traditions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-393) |
| Notes |
Translated from the Russian |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Russia -- Biography
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Women -- 19th century -- Biography
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Autobiography.
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autobiography (genre)
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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Autobiography
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Women
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Anthologie
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Autobiografie
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Frau
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Vrouwen.
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Russia
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Russland
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clyman, Toby W
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Vowles, Judith, 1956-
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| LC no. |
96016372 |
| ISBN |
0585361517 |
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9780585361512 |
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