Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century

Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century / edited by Brenda Ayres.

This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen schola...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ayres, Brenda (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Literature, Modern—19th century.
British literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
Culture.
Gender.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; or, What You Will
  • Genteel Appropriations of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762): Sex, Sensibility, and Taste in Victorian Family Biography by Magdalena Nerio
  • A Vindication of the Woman Known as Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
  • The Constructed Letters of Mary Hays (1759–1843)
  • So Irish; so modish, so mixtish, so wild”: Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan) (1781–1838) and The Makings of a Life.-Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)
  • Whose Poetess?The After-Lives of Felicia Hemans (1793–1835): Biographical Misconstructions.-“Stuck Through with a Pin and Beautifully Preserved”: Curating the Life of “Elizabeth Barrett Browning”
  • Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) Autobiography, Biography, and Literary Legacies
  • Caroline Norton (1808–1877): The Injured Wife, Scandal, and the Politics of Feminist Memory
  • The Biographer as Biographee: Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
  • Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855): (Un)Masked Author to Mythic Woman
  • An Unconventional and Contradictory Life: Lady Florence Dixie
  • A Woman Whom Men Could More Than Love”: Transfiguring the Unlovely in George Eliot (1819–1880)
  • Irony upon Irony: The Persistence of Gordon Haight’s Perceptions of Edith Simcox (1844–1901).

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