Part I : Historians of the self --
"Life has done almost as well as art" : deconstructing the Maimie Papers / Margaretta Jolly --
"A short account of my unprofitable life" : autobiographies of working class women in Britain c. 1775-1845 / Jane Rendall --
"Pondering all these things in her heart" : aspects of secrecy in the autobiographical writings of seventeenth-century Englishwomen / Elspeth Graham [and others] --
Striking rock : the letters of Ray Strachey to her family, 1929-1935 / Johanna Alberti --
Part II : Selves and others --
In search of a voice for Dopdi/ Draupadi : writing the other woman's story out of the "dark continent" / Ranjana Khanna --
Leslie Stephen, Anny Thackeray Ritchie, and the sexual politics of genre : missing her / Trev Lynn Broughton --
What is [not] remembered : the autobiography of Alice B. Toklas / Gabriele Griffin --
The memoirs of Halidé Edib : a Turkish woman writer in exile / Ayse Durakbasa --
Part III : Subjectivities --
Autobiography and orality : the work of modernist women writers / Sabine Vanacker --
Silent witness : memory and omission in Natalia Ginzburg's family sayings / Judith Woolf --
Part IV : Lives in practice --
Their wars / Nicole Ward Jouve --
"Invisible presences" : life-writing and Vera Brittain's testament of friendship / Marion Shaw --
"Tidal edges" in contemporary women's poetry : towards a model of critical empathy / Vicki Bertram.