Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Susan Groag Bell and Marilyn Yalom
1. 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
2. "Double Singleness": Gender Role Mergence in the Autobiographical Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb
Jane Aaron
3. A Woman in the "Man's World": The Journals of Nadezhda Durova
Mary Fleming Zirin
4. Biography as Autobiography: Adele Hugo, Witness of Her Husband's Life
Marilyn Yalom
5. Biography as Reflected Autobiography: The Self-Creation of Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Carol Hanbery MacKay
6. The Feminization of John Stuart Mill
Susan Groag Bell
7. The Literary Standard, Working-Class Autobiography, and Gender
Regenia Gagnier
8. "Yo Sola Aprendi": Mexican Women's Personal Narratives from Nineteenth-Century California
Genaro Padilla
9. Reconstructing the Person: The Case of Clara Shortridge Foltz
Barbara Allen Babcock
10. Lorine Niedecker: Composing a Life
Glenna Breslin
11. Postmodernism and the Biographer
Diane Wood Middlebrook
12. The Mother Tongue of Paul Celan: Translation into Biography
John Felstiner
13. Engendering an Autobiography in Art: Charlotte Salomon's "Life? Or Theater?"
Mary Lowenthal Felstiner
14. "Father Books": Memoirs of the Children of Fascist Fathers
Susan G. Figge
Notes
Contributors
Index