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"""[A] thoroughly researched and analyzed study. Including almost 200 narratives by professional women of letters in multiple languages over more than a century, the result is the first historical examination of the female childhood autobiography of its kind. . . . Martens's rich cache of stories reveals new insight into women as they saw themselves. . . . Highly recommended.""--CHOICE Reviews ""One of the most pleasurable aspects of reading Martens' jargon-free prose is her knack of summarizing themes or characteristics in a succinct, sometimes witty phrase, or pulling up short to ask herself (and the reader) a question. . . . Her encyclopaedic study ensures that we will never again overlook the importance of this genre, or its ability to recount extraordinary girlhoods.""--Life Writing ""This is a comprehensive, insightful literary history of women's autobiographies of childhood. Thoroughly researched, highly original, and persuasive, As Told by Herself: Women's Childhood Autobiography, 1845-1969 addresses a significant scholarly gap in very productive and important ways.""--Kate Douglas, author of Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma and Memory"

This is a comprehensive, insightful literary history of women's autobiographies of childhood. Thoroughly researched, highly original, and persuasive, As Told by Herself: Women's Childhood Autobiography, 1845-1969 addresses a significant scholarly gap in very productive and important ways. --Kate Douglas, author of Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma and Memory

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Lorna Martens is a professor of German and comparative literature at the University of Virginia and is the author of several books, including The Promise of Memory: Childhood Recollection and Its Objects in Literary Modernism.

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