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REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

Annie Wood Besant
Annie Besant: An Autobiography (autobiography) 1893

Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre; an Autobiography [as Currer Bell] (novel) 1847

Samuel Butler
The Way of All Flesh (novel) 1903

Thomas Carlyle
Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh (prose) 1833-34; published in Fraser's Magazine

Charles Darwin
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin [edited by Francis Darwin] (autobiography) 1929; revised edition, edited by Nora Barlow, published as The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With Original Omissions Restored, 1933

Charles Dickens
The Personal History of David Copperfield (novel) 1850

Edmund Gosse
Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (novel) 1907

Leigh Hunt
The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt; with Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries. 3 vols....

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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
   1. Linda H. Peterson (essay date 1986)
   2. Martin A. Danahay (essay date 1993)
   3. Philip Davis (essay date 1996)
4. Criticism: Autobiography And The Self
   1. Paul Jay (essay date 1984)
   2. Robert Folkenflik (essay date 1993)
   3. Robert D. Aguirre (essay date fall 2002)
5. Criticism: Autobiography And Gender
   1. Estelle C. Jelinek (essay date 1986)
   2. Martin A. Danahay (essay date fall 1990)
6. Criticism: Autobiography And Class
   1. Julia Swindells (essay date 1985)
   2. Regenia Gagnier (essay date 1989)
   3. Nan Hackett (essay date summer 1989)
7. Criticism: Autobiography And Fiction
   1. Robert Tracy (essay date 1986)
   2. Janice Carlisle (essay date fall 1990)
   3. Sara Murphy (essay date winter 2001)
8. Further Reading
9. Copyright

1. Victorian Literature
2. Autobiography