Biographical misrepresentations of British women writers : a hall of mirrors and the long nineteenth century / Brenda Ayres, editor.
Ayres, Brenda, 1953-
2017
PR115 .B56 2017
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Title
Biographical misrepresentations of British women writers : a hall of mirrors and the long nineteenth century / Brenda Ayres, editor.
ISBN
9783319567501 (electronic book)
3319567500 (electronic book)
9783319567495
3319567497
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (296 pages).
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PR115 .B56 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.89287
Summary
This book is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written.
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Ayres, Brenda, 1953-
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Palgrave studies in life writing.
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Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers : A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century.
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Introduction; or What you will / Brenda Ayres
Genteel appropriations of Lady Mary Wortley Montague (1689-1762): Lady Louisa Stuart, William Moy Thomas, and the rigors of Victorian memoir / Magdalena Nerio
A vindication of the woman as Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) / Brenda Ayres
Artifact or artifice? The epistolary image of Mary Hays (1759-1843) / Sarah Faulkner
"So Irish; so modish, so mixtish so wild" Syney Owenson (Lady Morgan; 1783-1859) & the makings of a life / Julie Donovan
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838): whose poetess? / Katherine Montwieler
The after-lives of Felicia Hemans (1793-1835): biographical misconstructions / Helen Luu
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876): autobiography, biography, and literary legacies / Deborah A. Logan
"Stuck through with a pin, and beautifully preserved": curating the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) / Elizabeth Way
Caroline Norton (1808-1877): the injured wife, scandal, and the politics of feminist memory / Gail Savage
The biographer as biographee: Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) / Anna Koustinoudi
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855): (un)masked author to mythic woman / Sarah E. Maier
An unconventional and contradictory life: Lady Florence Dixie (1855-1905) / Taryne Jade Taylor
"A woman whom men could more than love": transfiguring the unlovely in George Eliot (1819-1880) / Nancy Marck Cantwell
Irony up ironcy: the persistance of Gordon Haight's perceptions of Edith Simcox (1844-1901) / Constance M. Fulmer.

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