The Invention of Female Biography

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
PART I: Editor’s introduction
	Introduction
PART II: Forgotten women
	1 Well represented or missing in action? Queens, queenship and Mary Hays
	2 Mary Hays and learned women in the Renaissance: The cases of Isabella de Rosares and Isabella de Josa
	3 Finding anonymous: Further discoveries in Mary Hays’s Female Biography
PART III: Omissions and revisions
	4 Missing persons: Lucy Hutchinson, feminist biography, and the digital archive
	5 Mary Hays’s classical women and the promotion of female agency
	6 Mary Hays’s invisible women: Manuscript poetry and the practice of life-writing in a nn Yerbury (1729–1754)
	7 Memoirs of Queens and the ‘invention’ of collective royal biography
PART IV: Female Biography and the feminist history tradition
	8 Agrippina to Veturia: Ancient and modern companions to Female Biography
	9 Mary Hays and the imagined female communities of early modern Europe
	10 A mirrored hall of fame: Reading Mary Hays reading Tullia d’Aragona
	11 Elizabeth Cromwell and Mary Hays
PART V: Contemporary uses of Female Biography
	12 Towards a radical feminist historiography
	13 I wish that I could have known before: Female Biography and feminist epistemologies
Index