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- Title
COLLABORATION AND THE VICTORIAN ORAL NARRATIVE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHARWOMAN.
- Authors
BOOS, FLORENCE S.
- Abstract
An intriguing example of the mixed genre of collaborative memoir is The Autobiography of a Charwoman, as Chronicled by Annie Wakeman (London, 1900), a rare, possibly unique extended memoir/life story of an illiterate late- Victorian urban woman worker. As a story transmitted by a fellow woman of a different nationality and social class, the Autobiography proffers two somewhat divergent truths, and two somewhat divergent fictions. It also testifies to the complexities inherent in cross-class collaboration, blending the memories of an abused wife with the dismayed response of her auditor. In addition, both the 'charwoman' and her chronicler apparently altered aspects of her account, though from different motives.
- Subjects
ORAL communication; WOMEN cleaning personnel; MEMOIRS; SOCIAL classes; AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Publication
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2016, Vol 52, Issue 2, p218
- ISSN
0015-8518
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fmls/cqw007