First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book discusses gender and autobiography, and the politics of autobiography. It offers examples of ways of making sense of individual works or groups of works.

Philip Dodd explores the lives of an extraordinarily diverse range of people who happen to have one thing in common: by chance or deliberately, they have left their names deeply embedded in the language and conciousness of future generations.

This book discusses gender and autobiography, and the politics of autobiography. It offers examples of ways of making sense of individual works or groups of works.