Women's Letters as Life Writing 1840-1885

ISBN-13: 9781032239071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 202 str.

Catherine Delafield

Opis

Letters are collaborative texts and can be used for writing lives together. This book revisits the material conditions for letter-writing and addresses issues of survival and choice when an archive passes into family hands, examining how women’s lives came to be written and rewritten in letters in the nineteenth century.

Spis treści

Introduction Rereading Letters as Life Writing

Chapter 1 Women’s Letters Becoming Life Writing

Chapter 2 The Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay (1842–46): Women’s Life Writing and Family Considerations

Chapter 3 The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857): Family Considerations and the Written Life

Chapter 4 Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany (1861–62): The Family Letter Collection

Chapter 5 Letters and Memorials of Catherine Winkworth (1883 and 1886): A Life in Translation.

Chapter 6 Letters of Jane Austen (1884): The Family Record

Chapter 7 George Eliot’s Life (1885): Letters as Life Writing and the Response to Biography

Chapter 8

& Appendix Letters as Life Writing: Hidden Lives and Afterlives

O autorze

Catherine Delafield is an independent scholar based in Devon. She is the author of Women’s Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2009) and Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines (2015). She has also published articles on life writing and serialisation.