Table of Contents
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