Description This book explores how the publication of women\'s life writing influenced the Reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century.
It provides case studies of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays; four writers who authored and/or inspired works of life writing and whose names were caught up in the debates surrounding the moral and literary respectability of publishing the \'private\' through diaries, letter.
Description This book explores how the publication of women\'s life writing influenced the Reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century