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Records of Girlhood - An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods (Paperback)
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Records of Girlhood - An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Childhoods (Paperback)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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This anthology brings together for the first time a collection of
autobiographical accounts of their childhood by a range of
prominent nineteenth-century literary women. These are strongly
individualised descriptions by women who breached the cultural
prohibitions against self writing, especially in the attention
given to psychologically formative incidents and memories. Several
offer detailed accounts of their inadequate schooling and their
keen hunger for knowledge: others give new insights into the
dynamics of Victorian family life, especially relationships with
parents and siblings, the games they invented, and their sense of
being misunderstood. Most contributors vividly describe their fears
and fantasies, together with obsessive religious practices, and the
development of an inner life as a survival strategy. This
collection makes vital out-of-print material available to scholars
working in the field of women's autobiography, the history of
childhood, and Victorian literature. The volume will also appeal to
general readers interested in biography, autobiography, the history
of family life, education, and women's writing: read alongside
Victorian women's novels it offers an intriguing commentary on some
of their key themes.
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