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Contributions to this book analyse material from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography, auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and directories, and the book closes with reflections and poems by contemporary life writers. It was originally published as a special issue of
Life Writing.
List of contents
Introduction – Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian Auto/biography 1. Coherence and Inclusion in the Life Writing of Romantic-period London 2. Intertextual Sociability in Victorian Lives of the Romantic Poets: Thomas De Quincey’s ‘Lake Reminiscences’ and Edward John Trelawny’s Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron 3. Josephine Butler’s Serial Auto/biography: Writing the Changing Self through the Lives of Others 4. Writing the Lives of Dissent: Life Writing, Religion and Community from Edmund Calamy to Elizabeth Gaskell 5. Life Writing by the Gosse Family: Family Portraits in Scientific, Evangelical and Auto/biographical Discourses 6. The Diaries of Mary Seton Watts (1849–1938): A Record of Her Conjugal Creative Partnership with ‘England’s Michelangelo’, George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) 7. Janet Ross’s Intergenerational Life Writing: Female Intellectual Legacy through Memoirs, Correspondence, and Reminiscences
About the author
Felicity James is Associate Professor in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature in the Department of English at the University of Leicester, UK. She works on sociability, friendship and creative exchange amongst writers and communities, with a specific interest in the literature and networks of religious Dissent, and Charles and Mary Lamb.
Julian North is Associate Professor in nineteenth-century literature in the Department of English at the University of Leicester, UK. She specialises in Romantic and Victorian life writing and has a particular interest in literary biography, the construction of authorship, and the literary portrait.
Summary
Contributions to this book analyse material from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, including biography, auto/biographical memoirs, letters, diaries, sermons, maps and directories, and the book closes with reflections and poems by contemporary life writers. It was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.
