...This chapter examines the case of Hersilie Rouy, incarcerated in French asylums from 1854 until 1868. Rouy's autobiographical text, Mémoires d'une aliénée (1883), recounts her experiences prior to and during psychiatric treatment. This chapter forms a close analysis of this text...

...As an author of novels, novellas, and memoirs, Mme de Lafayette explored different kinds of narration, writing, as a historian, the life of Madame, the sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and, as a novelist, the adventures of fictional or partly fictional heroines. Mme de Lafayette’s notion of fiction can...

...This chapter focuses on James’s two family memoirs, A Small Boy and Others (1913) and Notes of a Son and Brother (1914). Reading James’s correspondence with old friends who had read these volumes and been moved to write and compare notes on their subject matter...

... struggle’. This essay examines the memoirs of former IRA men (Sean O’Callaghan, Eamon Collins, Gerry Bradley, Brendan Hughes), focusing on varieties of disenchantment with the republican campaign and the anticipated futures that have fuelled republican activism. It explores the particular political...

...This section of the book presents a history of the family of Dumont and the origins of his name. It looks at the influence his background had on his talents as a writer and his desire to present his life and times as an epic poem and a prose memoir. It considers what his memoir says about his...

... of Machado’s last two works, which represent his most advanced stage of interplay between fiction and reality and between language and meaning. Ayres’s novel and memoirs are dramatic allegories that, like Machado’s earlier novels, encompass a variety of genres and arts, from the diary and novel to mythology...

... writer (and a film producer for Greenpark Ltd) between 1933 and 1944. The third section gives an account of the rest of his writing life and his continuing presence in the public eye from 1945 until his death in 1974. This includes discussion of his later work for theatre and his 1967 memoir of his life...

... González crisis, I’m inspired to celebrate the new millennium by launching a new project, THE GULLY ONLINE MAGAZINE. Picking up where the Avengers left off, we mostly use the magazine for LGBT visibility and as a think-tank for identity. lesbian LGBT activism social change memoir New York Kentucky...

...EATING FIRE: MY LIFE AS A LESBIAN AVENGER is an activist’s memoir spanning two decades from the Culture Wars of the ‘90’s through today’s War on Terror. Engaging the reader with a picaresque activist adventure, Cogswell simultaneously explores questions of identity, resistance, and citizenship...

...This chapter turns to what Leigh Gilmore calls the “limits” of autobiography: its trading in trauma—and war. It also identifies memoir as a vehicle for haunted and fragmented accounts of the professional self in a specific historical context. The memoir is traditionally the prerogative...

...This chapter examines two British and one Irish example of the contemporary genre of ‘misery memoir’. The goal of misery memoir is to engage the reader through an assertion of authenticity. The reliability of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes — his account of a poverty-stricken...

...This chapter analyses two memoirs — James Frey's embellished A Million Little Pieces, that focuses on the personal tragedy of drug addiction and rehabilitation, and Margaret B. Jones' Love and Consequences, that portrays life as a gangland member. Although...

... Frank wrote themselves into history in various forms of memoir; and Jean Cassou and Irina Ratushinskaya voiced their resistance to totalitarianism through lyric poetry that saved their lives and inspired others. Finally, Primo Levi's writing after his release from Auschwitz recalls and decodes...

...This chapter presents excerpts from a memoir written by William W. Brown, a former slave. His early life was shaped by two constants: the instability of his personal life and his determination to escape. And the autobiography, as with dozens of other memoirs of former slaves published...

... old age aging ageing autobiography memoir memory life story affective life emotion working class The writer Storm Jameson played games with time. ¹ Or perhaps time played games with her. In Jameson’s autobiography, which was published in 1969, when she was seventy-eight, the past...

...This chapter presents the English translation of the memoirs of Horstense Mancini. Charles Emmanuel II duke of Savoy Christine of France duchess of Savoy called Madame Royale Fronde gloire glory or honor Henri IV king of France Louis XIII king of France Mancini Hortense Duchesse Mazarin...

...This chapter presents the English translation of the memoirs of Marie Mancini. Cholakian Patricia Francis Colonna Anna Marquise Spinola French court Goldsmith Elizabeth C Lever Maurice Mancini Marie Constabless Colonna Mémoires de M L P M M Colonne G Connétable du Royaume de Naples Mémoires...

...This essay reviews the book Personal History, by Vincent Sheean. First published in 1935, Personal History is a memoir of Sheean, an American journalist. In October 1922, Sheean, then a young man from Pana, a small town in southern Illinois, applied for a job...

...This chapter offers a reading of Larry Brown’s two nonfiction works: his memoir On Fire: A Personal Account of Life and Death and Choices (1994); and his collection of essays titled Billy Ray’s Farm: Essays from a Place Called Tula (2001). It argues that both...

...Manifesting illness, suffering, and mortality as affective, social, and political quantities, AIDS comics and graphic memoirs of the 1980s and 1990s visualize sickness, trauma, social and political marginalization, and collective memorialization to foster and serve as a repository for collective...