Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index
I. - On the Victorian "Origins" of Women's Autobiography: Reconstructing the Traditions - 1 -- - II. - The Polemics of Piety: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna's Personal Recollections, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, and the Ideological Uses of Spiritual Autobiography - 43 -- - III. - "The Feelings and Claims of Little People": Heroic Missionary Memoirs, Domestic(ated) Spiritual Autobiography, and Jane Eyre: An Autobiography - 80 -- - IV. - "For My Better Self": Auto/biographies of the Poetess, the Prelude of the Poet Laureate, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh - 109 -- - V. - Family Business: Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography as Professional Artist's Life - 146 -- - VI. - Mary Cholmondeley's Bifurcated Autobiography: Eliotian and Brontean Traditions in Red Pottage and Under One Roof - 173