British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 (eBook)

Amy Culley is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, UK. She has published essays on women's life writing in the eighteenth century and Romantic period. She is the editor of volumes 1-4 of Women's Court and Society Memoirs (2009) and co-editor of Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850: Gender, Genre and Authorship (2012).

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: 'THEIR LIVES SPOKE MORE THAN VOLUMES' THE LIFE WRITING OF EARLY METHODIST WOMEN 1. The Life Writing of Early Methodist Women 2. 'All the Family in Heaven and Earth are Married': Mary Fletcher and the Family of Methodism 3. 'With Magdalene at the Masters Feet': Testimony and Transcription in the Life of Sarah Ryan 4. 'The Staff of My Old Age': Memorialising Sarah Lawrence 5. 'They Live Yea They Live Forever': Mary Tooth's Methodist History PART II: 'SIGNED WITH HER OWN HAND' THE LIFE WRITING OF LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AND REGENCY COURTESANS 6. The Life Writing of Late Eighteenth-Century and Regency Courtesans 7. Female Friendship in the Auto/biography of Sophia Baddeley and Elizabeth Steele 8. The Literary Family and the 'Aristocracy of Genius' in the Memoirs of Mary Robinson 9. 'Such is the Sad Trials Left for the Surviver': the Journal of Elizabeth Fox 10. A Life in Opposition: the Memoirs of Harriette Wilson PART III: 'HEARD IN THE SIGHS OF GENERAL MOURNING' THE LIFE WRITING OF BRITISH WOMEN AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 11. The Life Writing of British Women and the French Revolution 12. 'The Good Will Remain Written in Brass': Helen Maria Williams' Collective Memories 13. 'The Little Hero of Each Tale': Mary Wollstonecraft's Travelogue and Revolutionary Auto/biography 14. A Vindication of Self and Other: the Journal of Grace Dalrymple Elliott 15. To 'Rally Round the Throne': Saving the Nation in Charlotte West's Residence Bibliography Index