Gender, Professions and Discourse: Early Twentieth-Century Women's Autobiography
Description
Analyzing ninety professional women's autobiographies from 1900-1920, the first part of this book concentrates on the endeavours of groups such as headmistresses, doctors, nurses, artists and writers to record their own lives, while the second part examines frontispiece photos, prefatory marginalia and the role of silences in autobiography.
Keywords
AUTOBIOGRAPHY_WOMEN AUTHORSENGLISH PROSE LITERATURE_WOMEN AUTHORSENGLISH PROSE LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISMWOMEN AND LITERATUREWOMEN_GREAT BRITAINWOMEN_BIOGRAPHY
2008Book
Author(s)Christine Etherington-Wright
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230219922
LanguageEnglish
