Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the 'Scandalous Memoir'

This book contributes to the literary history of eighteenth-century women’s life writings, particularly those labeled “scandalous memoirs.” It examines how the evolution of this subgenre was shaped partially by several innovative memoirs that have received only modest critical attention. Breashears argues that Madame de La Touche’s  Apologie and her friend Lady Vane’s  Memoirs contributed to the crystallization of this sub-genre at mid-century, and that Lady Vane’s collaboration with T