Women S Life Writing and Historical Change in Britain and Ireland Since 1780

Women’s life writing and historical change in Britain and Ireland since 1780

General Introductory Texts

S. Smith, J. Watson, Women, autobiography, theory: a reader (1998)

S. Smith, J. Watson, Reading autobiography, a guide for interpreting life narratives (2001)

J.W. Scott, ‘The Evidence of Experience’, Critical Inquiry, 17/4 (1991), 773-797

M.M. Dowd, J.A. Eckerle, Genre and women’s life-writing in Early modern England (2007)

D. Cook, A. Cullen, (eds) Women’s life-writing, 1700-1850: gender, genre and authorship (2012)

C. Huff, Women’s life writing and imagined communities (2005) or C. Huff, ‘Towards a geography of women’s life writing an imagined communities, an introductory essay’ Prose Studies, 26:1-2, 1-16

Women’s History, special issue: ‘Performing the self: women’s lives in historical perspective’ 22, 2 (2013)

A. Corbin, ‘The secret of the individual’ in M. Perrot (ed) A history of private life, Vol IV: From the fires of the revolution to the Great War (1990)

V. Walkerdine, 'Subject to Change without notice: psychology, postmodernity and the popular' in S. Pile and N. Thrift (eds.) Mapping the Subject: geographies of cultural transformation (1995)

F. Nussbaum, The Autobiographical Subject: gender and ideology in 18thC England (1989)

J. Siegel, ‘Problematizing the Self’ in L. Hunt et al (eds.) Beyond the Cultural Turn: new directions in the study of society and culture (1999) [online via SOLO]

L. Stanley, The Auto/biographical I: The theory and practice of feminist auto/biography (1992)

L. Peterson, ‘Women writers and self-writing’ in J. Shattock, (ed.) Women and Literature in Britain (1996)

T.Cosslett, C.Lury and P.Summerfield (Eds) Women’s Autobiographical Selves (2000)

For reference

British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries [available via OXLIP]

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [available via SOLO]

Dictionary of Irish Biography [available via OXLIP]

E. Crawford, Women’s suffrage movement: a reference guide 1866-1928 (1999/2006) [available via SOLO]

E. Crawford, The women's suffrage movement in Britain and Ireland : a regional survey (2006) [available via SOLO].

B. Kanner, Women in context: two hundred years of British women autobiographers, a reference guide and reader (1997)

B. Kanner, Women in English social history, 1800-1914: a guide to research (3 vols, 1987-1990)

Bibliography of British and Irish History [available on Brepolis via OXLIP]

M Jolly, Encyclopedia of life-writing: autobiographical and biographical forms (2001)

A.Bourke, et al (eds.), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Women's Writing and Traditions, 2 volumes (2001).

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/clusters/life-writing

TORCH Women’s Writing research network http://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/networks (website under development)