‘Becoming their most Intimate Scrutinizers’: collecting women’s lives

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes [1] Jo Stanley (2008) Collecting Lives, History Workshop Journal, 65, pp. 284–286. [2] The residency was supported by a Research and Knowledge Transfer grant from the University of Winchester. [3] Hilda Keen (2004) London Stories. Personal Lives, Public Histories (London: Rivers Oram Press), p. 10. [4] Antoinette Burton (2001) Thinking beyond the Boundaries: empire, feminism and the domains of history, Social History, 26(1), pp. 610–671, quoted in Carolyn Steedman (2001) Dust (Manchester: Manchester University Press), p. 5. [5] Steedman, Dust, p. 67. [6] See, for example, Keen, London Stories. [7] For a ‘classic’ text see: Sherna Berger Gluck & Daphne Patai (Eds) (1991) Women’s Words: the feminist practice of oral history (London: Routledge). [8] See Tess Cosslett, Celia Lury & Penny Summerfield (Eds) (2000) Feminism and Autobiography: texts, theories, methods (London: Routledge). [9] See, for example, Nicky Hallett (2007) Lives of Spirit: an edition of English Carmelite auto/biographies of the early modern period (Aldershot: Palgrave), pp. 1–29. [10] Alan Radley (1990) Artefacts, Memory and a Sense of the Past, in: David Middleton & Derek Edwards (Eds) Collective Remembering (London: Sage), pp. 46–59; Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Eugene Rochberg‐Halton (1981) The Meaning of Things: domestic symbols and the self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); Elizabeth Hallem & Jenny Hockey (2001) Death, Memory and Material Culture (Oxford: Berg).