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Alison Booth

How to Make It as a Woman

Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present

424 pages, 30 halftones  6 x 9  © 2004
Series: Women in Culture and Society Series

Cloth $102.00

ISBN: 9780226065458   Published October 2004

Paper $28.00

ISBN: 9780226065465   Published October 2004

List of Illustrations
Note on References
Introduction: Of Prosopography and Collective Biographies of Women
1. Self-Help History: Presenting Models of Womanhood
2. Heads Turn, Heads Roll: Heroic Types from Judith to Clara Barton
3. How to Minister as a Woman: The Likes of Elizabeth Fry, Mary Carpenter, Dorothea Dix, and the Three Mrs. Judsons
4. The Lessons of the Medusa: Anna Jameson and Mutual Multibiography
5. The World's Fair Women; or, Racial Progress in the Nineteenth Century
6. Writing Women's Lives, Revisited: Virginia Woolf and the Missing Canons of Biography
7. Our Queen Victoria: Feminist Prosopography
Notes
Bibliography of Collective Biographies of Women, 18301940
Appendix to Bibliography
Index
Awards
  • Barbara Penny Kanner Prize
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