The Coincidence of Biography and Autobiography
Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3806000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriele Helms (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 339-359 |
| Publication date | 1995-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0122 |
| OpenAlex | W2003907982 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 8 |
A biography can also be read as an autobiography of the biographer-persona whose creation is recognized as a biography's core device. The case study of Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë shows how a profile of this persona can be (re)constructed as she writes her own self into the story of Charlotte's life
Art · Biography · Coincidence · Literature · Diverse Interdisciplinary Research Studies · Historical and Scientific Studies · History · Medicine
Elizabeth Gaskell's Ethnographic Imagination in The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Biography, Rhetoric, and Intellectual Careers
Josephine Butler’s Serial Auto/Biography
Pulling out the Most Colourful Threads
Such a Strong Wish for Wings”
Multiple voices on the manuscript of Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Telling Women's Lives
Fictional Biography, Factual Biography, and their Contaminations
On the construction of fiction and the invention of facts
Proteus in Quotation-Land
Facts and the self from a constructivist point of view
Autobiography, Autography, Fiction
Authorial Typology in Literary Biography
The Challenge of Feminist Biography
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2022 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |