Black Beetle
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Charlotte Charke
childhood memoirs
Craven Hill
Dry Den
English Grammar
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Evangelical Sister
family dynamics history
Frances Power Cobbe
Frederick Ponsonby
Greta Hall
Hannah Kilham
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Jephthah's Vow
La Chaumiere Indienne
Lady Caroline Lamb
Large Families
Madame De Genlis
Miss Marryat
nineteenth-century education
psychological development
religious upbringing
Robinson Crusoes
Sara Coleridge
Scotch Firs
Victorian Women Autobiographers
Victorian women writers
William Lamb
Women's Autobiography
womenaEUR(TM)s autobiographical narratives
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754601487
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Oct 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Valerie Sanders
