WOMEN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
from Cambridge University Library
Part 1: Rare printed autobiographies covering thirty-three women's lives, 1713-1859
Note: Numbers in square brackets refer to the publication of Barbara Penny Kanner's Women in Context: Two Hundred Years of British Women Autobiographers: A Reference Guide and Reader (G K Hall, 1997)
REEL 1
ALEXANDER, Mary (1760-1809)
Some Account of the Life and Religious Experience of… 1811 [4] ASHBRIDGE, Elizabeth (ne Sampson) (1713-1755)
Quaker Gray; Some Account of the forepart of the life. 1904 [44]
ASHFORD, Mary Ann (1787-c1840)
Life of a Licensed Victualler’s Daughter,… 1844 [46] ASHFORD, Mary Ann
An argument [1817]
Wager of battle [1818]
Thornton’s Trial!! The trial of A Thornton… for the murder of M Ashford. [1817]
An investigation of the case. [1818] CANDLER, Ann (ne More) (1740-1814)
Poetical Attempts by Anne Candler, a Suffolk Cottager, with a Short Narrative of Her Life. 1803 [202]
CAPPE, Catharine (ne Harrison) (1744-1821)
Memoirs of The Life of the Late Mrs Catherine Cappe… 1822 [204] REEL 2
CAPPE, Catharine
Observations on Charity Schools, Female Friendly Societies, and other Subjects… 1805
CAPPE, Catharine
Thoughts on various charitable and other institutions 1814
Thoughts on the desirableness and utility of ladies visiting the female wards of hospitals and lunatic asylums. 1816
CARY, Catharine E (c1700-c1825)
Memoirs of… 1825. 3 vols [213] REEL 3
CHARKE, Charlotte (ne Cibber) (1713-1760) A Narrative of the Life… 1755 [216]
COGHLAN, Margaret (ne Moncrieffe) (c1763-?)
Memoirs… 1794. 2 vols [231] CRAVEN, Lady Elizabeth, Baroness Craven (ne Berkeley, later Margravine of Anspach) (1750-1828)
Memoirs… 1826. 2 vols [258]
REEL 4
CROWLEY, Ann (1766-1826)
Some expressions… 1774 [263]
CROWLEY, Ann
Some Account of the Religious Experiences of… (1842) DUDLEY, Mary (ne Stokes) (1750-1823)
The Life of… 1825 [307]
ELLIOTT, Grace Dalrymple, Lady (1765-1823)
The Journal of My Life During the French Revolution. 1859 [321] GRANT, Anne (ne MacVicar) (1755-1838)
Memoirs of an American Lady… 1809. 2 vols [405] REEL 5
GURNEY, Priscilla Hannah (1757-1828)
Memoir of the Life and Religious Experience of… 1856 [423]
HERBERT, Dorothea (1770-1829)
Retrospections… 1929. 2 vols [453]
JEMISON, Mary (1743-1833)
De-he-wa-mis: or a Narrative of the Life… 1847 [502] JOHNSTON, Elizabeth Lichtenstein (1764-1848)
Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist. 1901 [507] REEL 6
KNIGHT, (Ellis) Cornelia (1757-1837)
Autobiography of… 1861. 2 vols [534]
MORGAN, Sydney, Lady (ne Owenson) (c1783-1859)
Passages from my Autobiography… 1859 [675] REEL 7
MORGAN, Sydney
Dramatic scenes from real life. 1833. 2 vols MORTIMER, Elizabeth (ne Ritchie) (1754-1835)
Memoirs of… 1836 [679] REEL 8
PAPENDIEK, Charlotte (ne Albert) (1765-1839)
Court and Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte: Being, the Journals of… 1887. 2 vols [734] PHILLIPS, Catherine (ne Payton) (1727-1794)
Memoirs of the Life… to Which Are Added Some of Her Epistles. 1797 [750] REEL 9
PILKINGTON, Laetitia (ne Van Lewen) (c1706-1750)
Memoirs of Mrs Laetitia Pilkington, Written by Herself. 1748-1754. 3 vols [754] PILKINGTON, Laetitia
Biography for Girls. 1800 PILKINGTON, Laetitia
Biography for Boys. 1799 REEL 10
PIOZZI, Hester Thrale (ne Salusbury) (1741-1821)
Autobiography, Letters, and Literary Remains of… 1861. 2 vols [757] ROBERTSON, Hannah (1724-c1800)
The Life of Mrs Robertson, Grand-daughter of Charles II, Written by Herself. 1791 [794]
ROBINSON, Mary "Perdita" (ne Darby) (1758-1800)
Memoirs of… 1894 [795] REEL 11
SCHIMMELPENNICK, Mary Anne (ne Galton)(1778-1856)
The Life of… (ed Christiana C Hankin). 1858. 2 vols [826] SHERWOOD, Mary Martha (ne Butt) (1775-1851)
The Life… 1854 [843] REEL 12
SIDDONS, Sarah (ne Kemble) (1755-1831)
Memoirs of… (James Boaden) 1827. 2 vols [846] TALBOT, Mary Anne (John Taylor, pseud) (1778-1808)
The Life & Surprising Adventures… 1893 [929] TURNER, Joanna (ne Cook) (1732-1785)
Memoir of… 1820 [960] WALKER, Elizabeth (1623-1690)
The holy life of Mrs Elizabeth Walker by Anthony Walker. Abridged and revised 1823
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