Maria-José Blanco teaches twentieth-century Spanish literature at King’s College London. Her research interests lie in contemporary Spanish writers, with a special focus on women writers and life-writing.Claire Williams is Associate Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College. Her research focuses on contemporary women’s writing and minority writing from the Lusophone world.

• CONTENTS: Maria-José Blanco/Claire Williams: Introduction: Singular Feminine Voices and Histories – Part I: Cloistered Lives – Anna Caballé Masforroll: Captive Writing: Intimacy, Eroticism and Repression in Women’s Literature, or Landscapes with Secrets – Clara Crabbé Rocha: Two Aristocrats in the Convent: The Autobiographies of Antónia Margarida de Castelo Branco and the Marchioness of Alorna – Part II: Diary Writing – Laura Freixas – Publicity and Secrets: Publishing a Private Diary – Maria-José Blanco: Notebooks and Collages: Carmen Martín Gaite’s Visions of America – Sofia Maniscalco Mason: Adolescence, Trauma and Catharsis in Olga Alonso’s Testimonios: Women’s Life-Writing from Revolutionary Cuba – Part III: Memoir and Confessions – Paula Morão: Fernanda de Castro, Ao fim da memória: Memoirs of a Portuguese Century – Carina Infante do Carmo: Shadow Talk: Constructing Female Memory of Resistance to Salazar’s Dictatorship – Raquel Rivas Rojas: Promises of Happiness and Unhappy Effects in Abecedario del estío by Liliana Lara – Part IV: Poetry – Rosa Maria Martelo: Childhood Memories in the Poetry of Adília Lopes – Susan Bozkurt: Ana Luisa Amaral’s Carta a minha filha: A Mother/Daughter Relationship in Verse – Part V: Fictional Auto/biography – Maite Usoz de la Fuente: Gendered Genres: Autobiographical versus Autofictional Readings of Elvira Lindo’s Lo que me queda por vivir – Silvia Roca-Martínez: The Politics of Self-Presentation and Representation in Isabel Allende’s Mi país inventado: Un paseo nostálgico por Chile – Part VI: Visual Biographies – Claire Williams: Capturing the Likeness: The Encounter between Writer (Agustina Bessa-Luís) and Painter (Maria Helena Vieira da Silva) in Longos Dias Têm Cem Anos – Pepa Anastásio: Julia Fons’ Scrapbooks of a Chorus Girl: Life-Writing and Popular Musical Practices – Maria Luísa Coelho: The Eccentric Self-Portraits of Helena Almeida – Hélia Correia: Epilogue: Anything But a Biography

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Maria-José Blanco teaches twentieth-century Spanish literature at King’s College London. Her research interests lie in contemporary Spanish writers, with a special focus on women writers and life-writing.Claire Williams is Associate Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College. Her research focuses on contemporary women’s writing and minority writing from the Lusophone world.

• CONTENTS: Maria-José Blanco/Claire Williams: Introduction: Singular Feminine Voices and Histories – Part I: Cloistered Lives – Anna Caballé Masforroll: Captive Writing: Intimacy, Eroticism and Repression in Women’s Literature, or Landscapes with Secrets – Clara Crabbé Rocha: Two Aristocrats in the Convent: The Autobiographies of Antónia Margarida de Castelo Branco and the Marchioness of Alorna – Part II: Diary Writing – Laura Freixas – Publicity and Secrets: Publishing a Private Diary – Maria-José Blanco: Notebooks and Collages: Carmen Martín Gaite’s Visions of America – Sofia Maniscalco Mason: Adolescence, Trauma and Catharsis in Olga Alonso’s Testimonios: Women’s Life-Writing from Revolutionary Cuba – Part III: Memoir and Confessions – Paula Morão: Fernanda de Castro, Ao fim da memória: Memoirs of a Portuguese Century – Carina Infante do Carmo: Shadow Talk: Constructing Female Memory of Resistance to Salazar’s Dictatorship – Raquel Rivas Rojas: Promises of Happiness and Unhappy Effects in Abecedario del estío by Liliana Lara – Part IV: Poetry – Rosa Maria Martelo: Childhood Memories in the Poetry of Adília Lopes – Susan Bozkurt: Ana Luisa Amaral’s Carta a minha filha: A Mother/Daughter Relationship in Verse – Part V: Fictional Auto/biography – Maite Usoz de la Fuente: Gendered Genres: Autobiographical versus Autofictional Readings of Elvira Lindo’s Lo que me queda por vivir – Silvia Roca-Martínez: The Politics of Self-Presentation and Representation in Isabel Allende’s Mi país inventado: Un paseo nostálgico por Chile – Part VI: Visual Biographies – Claire Williams: Capturing the Likeness: The Encounter between Writer (Agustina Bessa-Luís) and Painter (Maria Helena Vieira da Silva) in Longos Dias Têm Cem Anos – Pepa Anastásio: Julia Fons’ Scrapbooks of a Chorus Girl: Life-Writing and Popular Musical Practices – Maria Luísa Coelho: The Eccentric Self-Portraits of Helena Almeida – Hélia Correia: Epilogue: Anything But a Biography

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Maria-José Blanco teaches twentieth-century Spanish literature at King’s College London. Her research interests lie in contemporary Spanish writers, with a special focus on women writers and life-writing.Claire Williams is Associate Professor of Brazilian Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College. Her research focuses on contemporary women’s writing and minority writing from the Lusophone world.

• CONTENTS: Maria-José Blanco/Claire Williams: Introduction: Singular Feminine Voices and Histories – Part I: Cloistered Lives – Anna Caballé Masforroll: Captive Writing: Intimacy, Eroticism and Repression in Women’s Literature, or Landscapes with Secrets – Clara Crabbé Rocha: Two Aristocrats in the Convent: The Autobiographies of Antónia Margarida de Castelo Branco and the Marchioness of Alorna – Part II: Diary Writing – Laura Freixas – Publicity and Secrets: Publishing a Private Diary – Maria-José Blanco: Notebooks and Collages: Carmen Martín Gaite’s Visions of America – Sofia Maniscalco Mason: Adolescence, Trauma and Catharsis in Olga Alonso’s Testimonios: Women’s Life-Writing from Revolutionary Cuba – Part III: Memoir and Confessions – Paula Morão: Fernanda de Castro, Ao fim da memória: Memoirs of a Portuguese Century – Carina Infante do Carmo: Shadow Talk: Constructing Female Memory of Resistance to Salazar’s Dictatorship – Raquel Rivas Rojas: Promises of Happiness and Unhappy Effects in Abecedario del estío by Liliana Lara – Part IV: Poetry – Rosa Maria Martelo: Childhood Memories in the Poetry of Adília Lopes – Susan Bozkurt: Ana Luisa Amaral’s Carta a minha filha: A Mother/Daughter Relationship in Verse – Part V: Fictional Auto/biography – Maite Usoz de la Fuente: Gendered Genres: Autobiographical versus Autofictional Readings of Elvira Lindo’s Lo que me queda por vivir – Silvia Roca-Martínez: The Politics of Self-Presentation and Representation in Isabel Allende’s Mi país inventado: Un paseo nostálgico por Chile – Part VI: Visual Biographies – Claire Williams: Capturing the Likeness: The Encounter between Writer (Agustina Bessa-Luís) and Painter (Maria Helena Vieira da Silva) in Longos Dias Têm Cem Anos – Pepa Anastásio: Julia Fons’ Scrapbooks of a Chorus Girl: Life-Writing and Popular Musical Practices – Maria Luísa Coelho: The Eccentric Self-Portraits of Helena Almeida – Hélia Correia: Epilogue: Anything But a Biography

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