Auto/biographical
Here is a selection of published autobiographies
and other biographical sources on single women, ranging
from 18th to 20th century Europe and North America.
Additions are greatly appreciated - please e-mail
the compiler at arachne [at] medusanet.ca
and I'll include them.
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Allen, Katherine R. Single Women/Family Ties:
Life Histories of Older Women. Newbury Park,
CA: Sage, 1989.
Barman, Jean. Constance Lindsay Skinner: Writing
on the Frontier: University of Toronto Press,
2002.
Barman, Jean, Jessie McQueen, and Annie McQueen.
Sojourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie
and Annie Mcqueen. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 2002.
Binnie-Clark, Georgina. Wheat and Woman
[1914]. University of Toronto Press, 1979.
Bryan, Mary Lynn McCree, Barbara Bair, and Maree
de Angury, eds. The Selected Papers of Jane Addams.
Volume One: Preparing to Lead, 1860-1881. Urbana:
U of Illinois Press, 2002.
Haig, Kennethe Macmahon, ed. Brave Harvest: The
Life Story of E. Cora Hind, LL.D. T. Allen, 1945.
Howsam, Leslie. "Sound-Minded Women: Eliza Orme
and the Study and Practice of Law in Late-Victorian
England." Atlantis 15, no. 1 (1989):
44-55.
Johnston, Sheila. Buckskin & Broadcloth:
A Celebration of E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake,
1861-1913. Toronto: Natural Heritage/Natural
History, 1997.
Lathrop, Anna H. "Portrait of a Physical: A
Case Study of Elizabeth Pitt Barron (1904-98)."
Historical Studies in Education 11, no. 2
(1999): 131-146.
Levy Simon, Barbara. Never Married Women. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1987.
Lock, William D. "As Independent as We Wished:
Elizabeth Scott & Alice Fish of Blaine County,
Nebraska." Nebraska History 82, no.
4 (2001): 138-151.
Maynard, Constance Louisa. The Diaries of Constance
Maynard. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Microform,
1987.
McKillop, A. B. The Spinster & the Prophet:
Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells, and the Mystery of the
Purloined Past. Toronto: Macfarlane Walter &
Ross, 2000.
Miller, Marla R. "'My Part Alone': The World
of Rebecca Dickinson, 1787-1802." New England
Quarterly 71, no. 3 (1998): 341-77.
O'Brien, Michael, and Southern Texts Society. An
Evening When Alone: Four Journals of Single Women
in the South, 1827-67. Charlottesville: Published
for the Southern Texts Society by the University Press
of Virginia, 1993.
Oldfield, Sybil. Spinsters of This Parish: The
Life and Times of F.M. Mayor and Mary Sheepshanks.
London: Virago, 1984.
Pickles, Katie. "Colonial Counterparts: The
First Academic Women in Anglo-Canada, New Zealand
and Australia." Women's History Review
10, no. 2 (2001): 273-297.
Prang, Margaret. A Heart at Leisure from Itself:
Caroline Macdonald of Japan. Vancouver: UBC Press,
1995.
Reichwein, PearlAnn, and Karen Fox. "Margaret
Fleming and the Alpine Club of Canada: A Woman's Place
in Mountain Leisure and Literature, 1932-1952."
Journal of Canadian Studies 36, no. 3 (2001):
35-60.
Reichwein, PearlAnn and Karen Fox, eds. Mountain Diaries: The Alpine
Adventures of Margaret Fleming, 1929-1980. Calgary: Historical Society of
Alberta, 2004.
Rooke, Patricia T., and R. L. Schnell. "Chastity
as Power: Charlotte Whitton and the Ascetic Ideal."
American Review of Canadian Studies 15, no.
4 (1985): 389-403.
Rooke, Patricia T., and Rodolph Leslie Schnell. No
Bleeding Heart: Charlotte Whitton, a Feminist on the
Right. Vancouver: University of British Columbia
Press, 1987.
Seabrook, Ginny. "Pagoda Shadows: The Life of
Adele Marion Fielde, Missionary to China 1865-1889."
American Baptist Quarterly 12, no. 3 (1993):
235-41.
Storrs, Monica, Vera K. Fast, and W. L. Morton. God's
Galloping Girl: The Peace River Diaries of Monica
Storrs, 1929-1931. Vancouver: University of British
Columbia Press, 1979.
White, Barbara A. The Beecher Sisters. Connecticut: Yale Univ. Press, 2003.
Yelland, Sheryl. "Adeline Lloyd: A Biography
of an Unmarried Woman." Lilith 2 (1985):
42-58.
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