Contents: 1. Authorising the Autobiographical, Shari Benstock 2. Women's Autobiographical Selves: Theory and Practice, Susan Stanford Friedman 3. My State, My Self: Autobiographical Writings of Afro-American Women, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese 4. Simone de Beauvoir: Ageing and its Discontents, Kathleen Woodward 5. Invincible Mediocrity: The Private Selves of Public Women, Jane Marcus 6. Eighteenth Century Women's Autobiographical Commonplaces, Felicity A Nussbaum 7. Female Rhetorics, Patricia Spacks 8. Pedagogy as Self-Expression in Mary Wollstonecraft: Exorcising the Past, Finding a Voice, Mitzi Myers 9. Representing Two Cultures: Jane Austen's Letters, Deborah Kaplan 10. Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals: Putting Herself Down, James Holt McGraven 11. Charlotte Forten Grimke (1837-1914) and the search for a Public Voice, Joanne M Braxton 12. Under the Sky: Public Presence and Private Self in Dickinson, James and Woolf, Nancy Walker.
