Records of Girlhood

Records of Girlhood
Author: Valerie Sanders
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-04-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134933754

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Valerie Sanders again brings together an influential group of women whose autobiographical accounts of their childhoods show them making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The fourteen women included juxtapose recollections of the bizarre with the quotidian and accounts of external events with the development of a complex inner life. Reading and acting are important themes, as is the precariousness of childhood, whether occasioned by a father's financial pressures or the early death of a parent. Significantly, most grew up expecting to earn their own living. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit), political figures (Emmeline Pankhurst and Louisa Twining), and well-known writers (Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sarah Grand). Of relevance to scholars working in the fields of women’s autobiography, the history of childhood, and Victorian literature, this anthology includes a scholarly introduction and brief biographical sketches of each woman.

Records of a Girlhood

Records of a Girlhood
Author: Frances Anna Kemble
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2020-07-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752363886

Reproduction of the original: Records of a Girlhood by Frances Anna Kemble

Records of a Girlhood

Records of a Girlhood
Author: Fanny Kemble
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2019-12-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

'Records of a Girlhood' is the riveting autobiography of Fanny Kemble, a British actress from a famous theater family who became a prominent writer and abolitionist in the 19th century. Her memoirs, poetry, and travel writing captivated readers, but it was her journal documenting the conditions of enslaved people on her husband's plantations in the Sea Islands that cemented her historical importance. Through her firsthand accounts and growing abolitionist sentiments, Kemble sheds light on the harsh realities of slavery and the moral imperative to end it.

Girl Making

Girl Making
Author: Gerry Bloustien
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2003
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781571814265

Through the innovative methodology of asking them to record their experiences on videotape, this book offers an evocative and fascinating cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives of a number of teenage girls from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. The use of the video camera by the girls themselves reveals their exploration and experimentation with possible identities, highlighting their awareness that the self is not ready made but rather constituted in the process of continuous performance. The result is an active self-conscious exploration of the continuous "art" of self-making. Through their play, the teenagers are shown to strategically test out various possibilities, while keeping such explorations within the bounds of what is acceptable and permissible in their own micro-cultural worlds. The resulting material challenges previous findings in those feminist and youth anthropological studies based on too narrow a concept of class, ethnicity or populist approaches to culture.

Out of the Shadow

Out of the Shadow
Author: Rose Cohen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1918
Genre: Immigrants
ISBN:

Cohen was Russian-born American author whose 1918 autobiography Out of the Shadow provides a classic account of the lives of Jewish immigrants in New York City at the end of the 19th century.