Table of Contents:
  • The "failure" of biography and the triumph of women's writing : Bettina von Arnim's Die Gunderode and Christa Wolf's The quest for Christa T. / Anna K. Kuhn
  • "Double singleness" : gender role mergence in the autobiographical writings of Charles and Mary Lamb / Jane Aaron
  • A woman in the "man's world" : the journals of Nadezhda Durova / Mary Fleming Zirin
  • Biography as autobiography : Adelew Hugo, witness of her husband's life / Marilyn Yalom
  • Biography as reflected autobiography : the self-creation of Anne Thackaray Ritchie / Carol Hanbery MacKay
  • The feminization of John Stuart Mill / Susan Groag Bell
  • The literary standard, working-class autobiography and gender / Regenia Gagnier
  • "Yo la sol aprendi" : Mexican women's personal narratives from nineteenth-century California / Genaro Padilla
  • Reconstructing the person : the case of Clara Shortridge Foltz / Barbara Allen Babcock
  • Lorine Niedecker : composing a life / Glenna Breslin
  • Postmodernism and the biographer / Diane Wood Middlebrook
  • The mother tongue of Paul Celan : translation into biography / John Felstiner
  • Engendering an autobiography in art : Charlotte Salomon's "life? or theater?" / Mary Lowenthal Felstiner
  • "Father books" : memoirs of the children of Fascist fathers / Susan C. Figge.