| Description |
xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
New York literary forum.
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| Contents |
Autogynography : is the subject different? / Donna C. Stanton -- Ceremonies of the alphabet : female grandmatologies and the female authorgraph / Sandra Caruso Mortola Gilbert and Susan Dreyfuss David Gubar -- The female hand in Heian Japan : a first reading / Richard Bowring -- Autobiography of a new 'creatur' : female spirituality, selfhood, and authorship in "The book of Margery Kempe" / Janel M. Mueller -- To restorie honor and fortune : "The autobiography of Leonor López de Córdoba" / Amy Katz Kaminsky and Elaine Dorough Johnson -- Artemisia Gentileschi : the artist's autograph in letters and paintings / Mary D. Garrard -- Giving weight to words : Madame de Sévigné's letters to her daughter / Elizabeth C. Goldsmith -- "My childhood years" : a memoir by Czarist calvary officer, Nadezhda Durova / Mary Fleming Zirin -- Neither auction block nor pedestal : "The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee, a coloured lady" / Frances Smith Foster -- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel : musician in her brother's shadow / Marcia J. Citron -- Women as law cherks : Catharine G. Waugh / Nancy F. Cott -- |
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The female sociograph : the theater of Virginia Woolf's letters / Catharine R. Stimpson -- Of sparrows and condors : the autobiography of Eva Perón / Marysa Navarro -- "Difficult journey-- mountainous journey", the memoirs of Fadwa Tuqan / Donna Robinson Divine -- Women and autobiography at author's expense / Philippe Lejeune -- My memory's hyperbole / Julia Kristeva |
| Analysis |
Women |
| Notes |
"The articles in this book originally appeared in The female autograph, volume 12-13 of the New York literary forum"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 237-241 |
| Subject |
Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Autobiography.
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Women and literature.
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Women authors -- Biography.
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Women authors -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Stanton, Domna C.
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| LC no. |
87005906 |
| ISBN |
0226771202 (hard) |
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0226771210 (paperback) |
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