Title British women's life writing, 1760-1840 : friendship, community, and collaboration / Amy Culley, Lecturer in English, University of Lincoln, UK

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages.) Contents Part I. 'Their Lives Spoke More Than Volumes': The Life Writing of Early Methodist Women: 1. The Life Writing of Early Methodist Women; 2. Mary Fletcher and the Family of Methodism; 3. Testimony and Transcription in the Life of Sarah Ryan; 4.'The Staff of My Old Age': Memorialising Sarah Lawrence; 5.'They Live Yea They Live Forever': Mary Tooth's Methodist History -- Part II. "Signed With Her OIwn Hand': The Life Writing of Late Eighteenth-Century and Regency Courtesans: 6. The Life Writing of Late Eighteenth-Century and Regency Courtesans; 7. Female Friendship in the Auto/biography of Sophia Baddeley and Elizabeth Steele; 8. The Literary Family and the 'Aristocracy of Genius' in the Memoirs of Mary Robinson; 9.'Such is the Sad Trials Left for the Surviver': the Journal of Elizabeth Fox; 10. A Life in Opposition: the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson -- Part III. "Heard in the Sighs of General Mourning': The Life Writing of British Women and the French Revolution: 11. The Life Writing of British Women and the French Revolution; 12. 'The Good Will Remain Written in Brass': Helen Maria Williams' Collective Memories; 13. 'The Little Hero of Each Tale': Mary Wollstonecraft's Travelogue and Revolutionary Auto/biography; 14. A Vindication of Self and Other: the Journal of Grace Dalrymple Elliott; 15. To 'Rally Round the Throne': Saving the Nation in Charlotte West's Residence Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Autobiography -- Women authors. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Authorship -- History -- 18th century. Authorship -- History -- 19th century. Form Electronic book Author Palgrave (Firm) ISBN 1137274220 (electronic bk.) 9781137274229 (electronic bk.) (hardback) (hardback)

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