Records of Girlhood

Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods
Neuauflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4094-0161-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: The Nineteenth Century Series

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Valerie Sanders again brings together an influential group of women whose autobiographical accounts of their childhoods show them making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The fourteen women included juxtapose recollections of the bizarre with the quotidian and accounts of external events with the development of a complex inner life. Reading and acting are important themes, as is the precariousness of childhood, whether occasioned by a father's financial pressures or the early death of a parent. Significantly, most grew up expecting to earn their own living. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit), political figures (Emmeline Pankhurst and Louisa Twining), and well-known writers (Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sarah Grand). Of relevance to scholars working in the fields of women’s autobiography, the history of childhood, and Victorian literature, this anthology includes a scholarly introduction and brief biographical sketches of each woman.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanders, Valerie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction; Lady Morgan; Anna Eliza Bray; Mary Wright Sewell; Mary Cowden Clarke; Louisa Twining; Marianne North; Mary Elizabeth Braddon; Anne Thackeray Ritchie; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Sarah Grand and Ménie Muriel Dowie; Emmeline Pankhurst; E. Nesbit; Mary Cholmondeley; Select bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Valerie Sanders is Professor of English at the University of Hull, UK. Previous publications include a first Records of Girlhood collection (2000), The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: From Austen to Woolf (2002), and The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood (2009). She is currently a contributor to Pickering and Chatto’s Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant.