Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature早期现代文学的自传与女性作家：妇女的生活，1599-1678

作者简介：
　　Sharon Seelig is Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College, Massachusetts.  

Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they represented themselves. Sharon Seelig analyzes the writings of six seventeenth-century women: Margaret Hoby, Anne Clifford, Lucy Hutchinson, Ann Fanshawe, Anne Halkett, and the extraordinary Margaret Cavendish. Combining a fresh account of the development of autobiography with close and attentive reading of the texts, this important contribution to the fields of early modern literary studies and gender studies illuminates the interactions between literature and autobiography.

Preface
Introduction: mapping the territory
I Margaret Hoby: the stewardship of time
2 The construction of a life: the diaries of Anne Clifford
3 Pygmalion's image: the lives of Lucy Hutchinson
4 Ann Fanshawe: private historian
5 Romance and respectability: the autobiography of Anne Halkett
6 Margaret Cavendish: shy person to Blazing Empress
Conclusion: "The Life of Me"
Notes
Bibliography
Index