Records of girlhood : an anthology of nineteenth-century women's childhoods
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Records of girlhood : an anthology of nineteenth-century women's childhoods
（Nineteenth century series）
Ashgate, c2000-
- alk. paper
- v. 2
Available at 15 libraries
Note
Vol. 2 / Valerie Sanders
Series statement from general editors' preface
Contents of Works
- Amelia Opie
- Dorothea Herbert
- Mary Martha Sherwood
- Mary Somerville
- Lady Caroline Lamb
- 'Charlotte Elizabeth'
- Anna Jameson
- Mary Howitt
- Sara Coleridge
- Harriet Martineau
- Fanny Kemble
- Elizabeth Sewell
- Frances Power Cobbe
- Charlotte M. Yonge
- Annie Besant
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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alk. paper ISBN 9780754601487
Description
This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of prominent nineteenth-century literary women. These are strongly individualised descriptions by women who breached the cultural prohibitions against self writing, especially in the attention given to psychologically formative incidents and memories. Several offer detailed accounts of their inadequate schooling and their keen hunger for knowledge: others give new insights into the dynamics of Victorian family life, especially relationships with parents and siblings, the games they invented, and their sense of being misunderstood. Most contributors vividly describe their fears and fantasies, together with obsessive religious practices, and the development of an inner life as a survival strategy. This collection makes vital out-of-print material available to scholars working in the field of women's autobiography, the history of childhood, and Victorian literature. The volume will also appeal to general readers interested in biography, autobiography, the history of family life, education, and women's writing: read alongside Victorian women's novels it offers an intriguing commentary on some of their key themes.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- Amelia Opie
- Dorothea Herbert
- Mary Martha Sherwood
- Mary Somerville
- Lady Caroline Lamb
- 'Charlotte Elizabeth'
- Anna Jameson
- Mary Howitt
- Sara Coleridge
- Harriet Martineau
- Fanny Kemble
- Elizabeth Sewell
- Frances Power Cobbe
- Charlotte M. Yonge
- Annie Besant
- Index.
- Volume
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v. 2 ISBN 9781409401612
Description
In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Valerie Sanders again brings together an influential group of women whose autobiographical accounts of their childhoods show them making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The fourteen women included juxtapose recollections of the bizarre with the quotidian and accounts of external events with the development of a complex inner life. Reading and acting are important themes, as is the precariousness of childhood, whether occasioned by a father's financial pressures or the early death of a parent. Significantly, most grew up expecting to earn their own living. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit), political figures (Emmeline Pankhurst and Louisa Twining), and well-known writers (Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sarah Grand). Of relevance to scholars working in the fields of women's autobiography, the history of childhood, and Victorian literature, this anthology includes a scholarly introduction and brief biographical sketches of each woman.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- Lady Morgan
- Anna Eliza Bray
- Mary Wright Sewell
- Mary Cowden Clarke
- Louisa Twining
- Marianne North
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Anne Thackeray Ritchie
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Sarah Grand and Menie Muriel Dowie
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- E. Nesbit
- Mary Cholmondeley
- Select bibliography
- Index.
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