Companion to Women's Historical Writing

This A-Z reference work provides the first comprehensive reference guide to the wide range of historical writing with which women have been involved, particularly since the Renaissance. The Companion covers biographical writing, travelogue and historical fictions, broadening the concept of history to include the forms of writing with which women have historically engaged. The focus is on women writing in English internationally, but historical and historiographical traditions from beyond the English-speaking world are also examined. Brief biographies of individual writers are included.

Author: M. Spongberg, A. Curthoys, B. Caine
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/19/2009
Pages: 712
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780230239999

About the Author
MARY SPONGBERG is Head of the Department of History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Australia. She is author of Feminising Venereal Disease and Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance, and editor of Australian Feminist Studies.

ANN CURTHOYS is an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is the author of For and Against Feminism: A Personal Journey into Feminist Theory and History, and (with John Docker) of Is History Fiction?

BARBARA CAINE is Professor of History at Monash University, Australia. Her publications include Destined to be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb and she is the General Editor of Australian Feminism: A Companion.