How to Make It as a Woman - Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present : Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi How to Navigate This Book xv Introduction: Of Prosopography and Collective Biographies of Women 1(48) ONE Self-Help History: Presenting Models of Womanhood 49(40) TWO Heads Turn, Heads Roll: Heroic Types from Judith to Clara Barton 89(46) THREE How to Minister as a Woman: The Likes of Elizabeth Fry, Mary Carpenter, Dorothea Dix, and the Three Mrs. Judsons 135(40) FOUR The Lessons of the Medusa: Anna Jameson and Mutual Multibiography 175(22) FIVE The World's Fair Women; or, Racial Progress in the Nineteenth Century 197(28) SIX Writing Women's Lives, Revisited: Virginia Woolf and the Missing Canons of Biography 225(220) SEVEN Our Queen Victoria: Feminist Prosopography 445 Notes 283(64) Bibliography of Collective Biographies of Women, 1830-1940 347 Appendix to Bibliography 189(408) Index 597