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From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20020101
Author:Woolf, Judith
Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing. By Linda H. Peterson. (Victorian Literature and Culture) Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1999. xiii + 256 pp. $38.50.
It is apt indeed that Linda H. Peterson, in this cogent and lucidly written study, should quote Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous phrase, `I look everywhere for grandmothers and see none', since her own book is so crucially concerned with the search for literary ancestry. Appropriately, Peterson begins by paying tribute to the pioneering work of ...
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