How to Make It as a Woman
Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present
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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