Catherine Delafield

Women's Letters as Life Writing 1840-1885

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Letters are collaborative texts and can be used for writing lives together. This book revisits the material conditions for letter-writing and addresses issues of survival and choice when an archive passes into family hands, examining how women's lives came to be written and rewritten in letters in the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780367859114
• ISBN-10: 0367859114
• Artikelnr.: 69984527

Autorenporträt

Catherine Delafield is an independent scholar based in Devon. She is the author of Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2009) and Serialization and the Novel in Mid-Victorian Magazines (2015). She has also published articles on life writing and serialisation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Rereading Letters as Life Writing
Chapter 1 Women's Letters Becoming Life Writing
Chapter 2 The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (1842-46): Women's Life
Writing and Family Considerations
Chapter 3 The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857): Family Considerations and
the Written Life
Chapter 4 Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany
(1861-62): The Family Letter Collection
Chapter 5 Letters and Memorials of Catherine Winkworth (1883 and 1886): A
Life in Translation.
Chapter 6 Letters of Jane Austen (1884): The Family Record
Chapter 7 George Eliot's Life (1885): Letters as Life Writing and the
Response to Biography
Chapter 8
& Appendix Letters as Life Writing: Hidden Lives and Afterlives