Women's Lives/Women's Times

Trev Lynn Broughton is Lecturer in Women's Studies at the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York. Linda Anderson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

• Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE PART I HISTORIANS OF THE SELF Introduction 1. "Life Has Done Almost as Well as Art": Deconstructing The Maimie Papers Margaretta Jolly2. "A Short Account of My Unprofitable Life": Autobiographies of Working Class Women in Britain c. 1775-1845 Jane Rendall3. "Pondering All These Things in Her Heart": Aspects of Secrecy in the Autobiographical Writings of Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen Elspeth Graham, Hilary Hinds, Elaine Hobby, and Helen Wilcox4. Striking Rock: The Letters of Ray Strachey to Her Family, 1929-1935 Johanna AlbertiPART II SELVES AND OTHERS Introduction 5. In Search of a Voice for Dopdi/Draupadi: Writing the Other Woman's Story Out of the "Dark Continent" Ranjana Khanna6. Leslie Stephen, Anny Thackeray Ritchie, and the Sexual Politics of Genre: Missing Her Trev Lynn Broughton7. What Is [Not] Remembered: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gabriele Griffin8. The Memoirs of Halidé Edib: A Turkish Woman Writer in Exile Ayse DurakbasaPART III SUBJECTIVES Introduction 9. Autobiography and Orality: The Work of Modernist Women Writers Sabine Vanacker10. Silent Witness: Memory and Omission in Natalia Ginzburg's Family Sayings Judith WoolfPART IV LIVES IN PRACTICE Introduction 11. Their Wars Nicole Ward Jouve12. "Invisible Presences": Life-Writing and Vera Brittain's Testament of Friendship Marion Shaw13. "Tidal Edges" in Contemporary Women's Poetry: Towards a Model of Critical Empathy Vicki BertramCONTRIBUTORS INDEX

"What I like most about this book is the fine balance between theory and pedagogy it achieves. The theoretical discussions are carefully developed, thoughtful, and richly provocative, drawing on complex theories to unpack the subtleties and contradictions of women's autobiography in its many forms. Yet the essays themselves are full of valuable and very accessible information that could be used to develop and/or enrich courses in women's autobiography and women's studies in general."The book is very interesting to read. The essays raise some fascinating questions about what constitutes women's autobiography, the implications of woman representing themselves as 'subject,' and the role of language in the construction of subject." — Sandra Jamieson, Drew University