Examples of autobiography

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Examining this beata, holy woman, he stresses how, although her autobiography is unspeci®c about place, her life was appropriated by the city council.
His autobiography will appear this autumn and will give much more insight into his life than this brief note can.
Is the self prior to autobiography, or is it an effect of writing?
As a well-researched cultural study, it is also typical in using the con_icts represented in autobiography as straightforward evidence for the cultural situations of women.
As the autobiography of a well-known seed scientist, this book will arouse the interest of many readers of this journal.
Their written forms, like autobiographies, biographies, and interviews, make up a large part of contemporary western feminist literature.
The number of autobiographies by women is actually quite small in proportion to their output of novels.
I have therefore sought to identify patterns within a heterogeneous body of sources on scholars' lives - normative blueprints, anecdotes, correspondence, and autobiographies.
Of course making evaluative comments about a song typically employs what we think of as musical judgements, while evaluations of autobiographies highlight literary judgements.
They show too how music becomes part of the routine realities of the world depicted through fiction, and how musical lives are constructed in autobiographies.
His sources are, primarily, published funeral sermons for godly women, and women's own spiritual autobiographies and accounts of their private devotions.
If autobiographies are selective, so too is our recounting of them.
Each tried in his own way to realize autobiography's varied, often conflicting aims: historical accuracy, literary artistry, psychological verisimilitude.
Similarly, autobiographies may be idealized, though private letters and diaries are likely to be genuine enough.
The reversal of sense (of common sense) works by cultivating the force of that weakness (this will also be the secret of autobiography's strength).
At first glance, autobiographies would seem invaluable to historians.
She also compares the autobiographies of the first immigrants with those of the ones who are writing now.
We live in a very different world because of these autobiographies.
In many autobiographies female bare-breastedness appears as an everyday sight.
Such treatment of the diary is methodologically consistent with prevalent academic practice that regards personal narratives and autobiographies as sources for social history.
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