I.On the Victorian "Origins" of Women's Autobiography: Reconstructing the Traditions -- 1 -- II. The Polemics of Piety: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna's Personal Recollections, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, and the Ideological Uses of Spiritual Autobiography -- 43 -- III. "The Feelings and Claims of Little People": Heroic Missionary Memoirs, Domestic(ated) Spiritual Autobiography, and Jane Eyre: An Autobiography -- 80 -- IV. "For My Better Self": Auto/biographies of the Poetess, the Prelude of the Poet Laureate, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh -- 109 -- V. Family Business: Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography as Professional Artist's Life -- 146 -- VI. Mary Cholmondeley's Bifurcated Autobiography: Eliotian and Brontean Traditions in Red Pottage and Under One Roof -- 173.