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Title page of Recollections of Full Years by Helen Taft. Fourteen first ladies of the United States have written a total of twenty-three memoirs. The first lady is the hostess of the White House, and the position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, with some historical exceptions. Every memoir by a first ...
Mary Hays (1759–1843) was an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels and several works on famous (and infamous) women. She is remembered for her early feminism, and her close relations to dissenting and radical thinkers of her time including Robert Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and William Frend. [1]
Memoirs of the literary ladies of England from the commencement of the last century (1843), by Anne Elwood, is a group biography of British women writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Memoirs are dedicated to Elwood's late mother, Mary Curteis.
Female biography was identified and named by Mary Hays (1759–1843) as a discrete empirical category of knowledge production and analysis while researching figures for the first Enlightenment prosopography of women, Female Biography; Or, memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries (R. Phillips, 1803) in six volumes.
Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.
The poems are arranged alphabetically by author, an innovative format, for while both collections and collective biographies were popular, "the conflation of verse miscellany and encyclopedia or memoir was almost unheard of". [2] Chantel Lavoie has described this anthology as "the first attempt to determine and justify a canon of women's writings".
[4] [7] Three of these texts are collective biographies, [2] [4] [7] while three of them are more pointed political interventions in contemporary debates about women's roles. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Three are poems [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and three are dictionaries, [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 7 ] but they all list, and comment on, literary women and their accomplishments.
Her first book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, a biography which drew upon her conversations with the late president, was published in 1977, becoming a New York Times bestseller and provided a launching pad for her literary career. A sports journalist, as well, Goodwin was the first woman to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room in 1979 ...