Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers A Hall of Mirrors and the Long Nineteenth Century

“Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers explores how biographies are the products of the time in which they are written. In doing so, it unpacks the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, distortions, and gaps that biographical accounts hide, and which have remained unchecked and are perpetuated from publication to publication.”  (Meritxell Simon-Martin, Biography, Vol. 42 (4), 2019)

Brenda Ayres teaches at Liberty University and to date has published 27 books in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature. Her most recent publications are on Mary Wollstonecraft and include: Betwixt and Between the Biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft , Wollstonecraft’s War with Womanhood , and An “Accountable Being”: Mary Wollstonecraft and Religion .