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Templates for Authorship: American Women’s Literary Autobiography of the 1930s by Windy Counsell Petrie (review)

Windy Counsell Petrie’s Templates for Authorship: American Women’s Literary Autobiography of the 1930s brings together a disparate group of female authors who published autobiographies in the 1930s. Petrie sees this decade as a turning point for women’s life-writing, which up to that point had primarily taken the form of diaries, travelogues, letters, and autobiographical fiction. In the 1930s, however, autobiographies of all sorts fed an audience that, according to Petrie, was seeking a “prewar, preDepression, American past” (10) and autobiographies by well-known female authors were eagerly sought after.