Gender, Professions and Discourse: Early Twentieth-Century Women's Autobiography
Hardback Published on: 20/11/2008
£44.99
Synopsis
Analyzing ninety professional women's autobiographies from 1900-1920, the first part of this book concentrates on the endeavours of groups such as headmistresses, doctors, nurses, artists and writers to record their own lives, while the second part examines frontispiece photos, prefatory marginalia and the role of silences in autobiography.
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN: 9780230219922
- Number of pages: 241
- Dimensions: 216 x 140 mm