List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1 Autobiography—What Is It?
Issues and Debates
2 Lyric Autobiography: Intentional or Conventional Fallacy?
The Poetry of John Skelton (1460–1529) and Thomas Wyatt (1503–42)
3 Identity in Autobiography and Protestant Identification with Saints
John Bale and St. Paul in The Vocacyon of John Bale (1553)
4 Autobiography: History or Fiction?
William Baldwin Writing History “under the Shadow of Dream and Vision” in A Mirror for Magistrates (1559)
5 Sharing Secrets “Entombed in Your Heart”
Thomas Whythorne’s “Good Friend” and the Story of His Life (ca. 1569–76)
6 Adding an “Author’s Life”
Thomas Tusser’s Revisions of A Hundreth Good Points of Husbandry (1557–
73)
7 A Garden of One’s Own
Isabella Whitney’s Revision of Hugh Plat’s Floures of Philosophie in Her Sweet Nosegay (1573)
8 Erasing an Author’s Life
George Gascoigne’s Revision of One Hundreth Sundrie Flowres (1573) in His
Poesies (1575)
9 Autobiography in the Third Person
Robert Greene’s Fiction and His Autobiography by Henry Chettle (1590–92)
10 Autobiographers: Who Were They? Why Did They Write?
Appendix
Notes
Index