Region, genre, gender -- A feminist life narrative in a traditionalist society : Belle Kearney -- A distanced Southern girlhood : Helen Keller and Anne Walter Fearn -- Wifehood narratives : Mary Hamilton and Agnes Grinstead Anderson -- Belles, wives, and public lives, part I : Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair -- Belles, wives, and public lives, part II : Virginia Foster Durr, Lindy Claiborne Boggs, and Lylah Scarborough Barber -- Testimonial narratives of racial consciousness : Katharine DuPre Lumpkin and Lillian Smith -- Narratives of a writing life, part I : Ellen Glasgow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Narratives of a writing life, part II : Zora Neale Hurston and Bernice Kelly Harris -- Modes of autobiographical narrative : Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Spencer, and Ellen Douglas -- Coda: Reflections on a literary genre
