@article{838300,
      recid = {838300},
      author = {Ayres, Brenda,},
      title = {Biographical misrepresentations of British women writers :  a hall of mirrors and the long nineteenth century /},
      pages = {1 online resource (296 pages).},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/838300},
}