'Male memory, female subject: writing Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft '

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• Janet Todd, Professor emerita, University of Aberdeen and Hon Fellow of Newnham College
• Tuesday 02 February 2016, 17:45-19:15
• Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

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This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

I juxtapose two influential biographies: William Godwin’s memoir of his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft (1798) and James Edward Austen Leigh’s sketch of his aunt Jane Austen (1869). I consider what these male authors chose to stress and omit and how they interacted with the gendered aspects of their subjects. Both intended to manipulate the reputations of their famous relatives; both saw themselves as executors of the image.

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