Clio's Lives : Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (330 pages)
- ANU Lives Series in Biography Series .
- ANU Lives Series in Biography Series .
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- Autobiographies of Historians -- 2. Writing History/Writing about Yourself: What's the Difference? -- 3. Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: Three Autobiographies of Childhood and Coming of Age -- 4. The Female Gaze: Australian Women Historians' Autobiographies -- Nation-Defining Authors -- 5. 'A gigantic confession of life': Autobiography, 'National Awakening' and the Invention of Manning Clark -- 6. Ceci n'est pas Ramsay Cook: A Biographical Reconnaissance -- Discipline-Defining Authors -- 7. Intersecting and Contrasting Lives: G.M. Trevelyan and Lytton Strachey -- 8. An Ingrained Activist: The Early Years of Raphael Samuel -- 9. Pursuing the Antipodean: Bernard Smith, Identity and History -- Collective Biography -- 10. Australian Historians Networking, 1914-1973 -- 11. Country and Kin Calling? Keith Hancock, the National Dictiona -- 12. Imperial Women: Collective Biography, Gender and Yale‑trained Historians -- 13. Concluding Reflections -- Index.
Including contributions from leading scholars in the field from both Australia and North America, this collection explores diverse approaches to writing the lives of historians and ways of assessing the importance of doing so.