Table of Contents:
  • Femmes a part : unsociable sociability, women, lifewriting / Louise D'Arcens and Anne Collett
  • Je, Christine : Christine de Pizan's autobiographical topoi / Louise D'Arcens
  • Law, gender and print culture in the lifewriting of Eliza Frances Robertson / Sarah Ailwood
  • Some stories need to be told, then told again : Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe / Michael Jacklin
  • The scripted life of Peig Sayers / Irene Lucchitti
  • Yet thou did deliver me : the exemplary life of Alice Thornton / Anne Lear
  • Size matters : the oppositional self-portraiture of Emily Carr / Anne Collett
  • A literary fortune : Mary Fortune's life in the colonial periodical press / Megan Brown
  • You for whom I wrote : Renée Vivien, H.D. and the Roman à clef / Melissa Boyde
  • Writing food writing fiction writing life : Marion Halligan's memoirs / Dorothy Jones
  • Writing as cultural negotiation : Suneeta Peres da Costa and Alice Pung / Wenche Ommundsen
  • The language of recognition : Carolyn Slaughter and Alexandra Fuller / Tony Simoes da Silva.