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BL
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701128
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b523317
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| Main Entry
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Peterson, Linda H.
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| Title & Author
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Traditions of Victorian women's autobiography : : the poetics and politics of life writing /\ Linda H. Peterson.
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| Publication Statement
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Charlottesville :: University Press of Virginia,, 1999.
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| Series Statement
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Victorian literature and culture series
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| Page. NO
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xiii, 256 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0813918839 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-248) and index.
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| Contents
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On the Victorian "origins" of women's autobiography: reconstructing the traditions -- The polemics of piety: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna's Personal recollections, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, and the ideological uses of spiritual autobiography -- "The feelings and claims of little people": heroic missionary memoirs, domestic(ated) spiritual autobiography, and Jane Eyre: an autobiography -- "For my better self": auto/biographies of the poetess, and the Prelude of the poet laureate, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh -- Family business: Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography as professional artist's life -- Mary Cholmondeley's bifurcated autobiography: Eliotian and Brontëan traditions in Red pottage and Under one roof.
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Autobiography-- Political aspects-- Great Britain.
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Autobiography-- Women authors.
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English prose literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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English prose literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Autobiography-- Political aspects-- Great Britain.
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Autobiography-- Women authors.
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English prose literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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English prose literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Great Britain, History, Victoria, 1837-1901, Biography, History and criticism.
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| Dewey Classification
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828/.80809492072
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| LC Classification
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PR788.W65P47 1999
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