Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Citation Information -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction - Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian Auto/biography -- Notes -- References -- 1. Coherence and Inclusion in the Life Writing of Romanticperiod London -- Disclosure statement -- References -- 2. Intertextual Sociability in Victorian Lives of the Romantic Poets: Thomas De Quincey's 'Lake Reminiscences' and Edward John Trelawny's Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron -- Allusiveness in Romantic literary friendship circles -- De Quincey -- Trelawny -- Notes -- Disclosure statement -- References -- 3. Josephine Butler's Serial Auto/biography: Writing the Changing Self through the Lives of Others -- Auto/biography and Victorian women's life writing -- Memoir of John Grey of Dilston and the genderless ideal of the liberal reformer -- Prophetic outsider and mother of humanity: Catharine of Siena -- Disclosure statement -- References -- 4. Writing the Lives of Dissent: Life Writing, Religion and Community from Edmund Calamy to Elizabeth Gaskell -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Disclosure statement -- References -- 5. Life Writing by the Gosse Family: Family Portraits in Scientific, Evangelical and Auto/biographical Discourses -- Biography as a tool for teaching natural history: Philip Gosse's The Canadian Naturalist -- Biography as a tool for Proselytism: Emily Gosse's evangelical tracts (1857-1858) -- Biography for commemoration and exhortation: Philip's Memorial to Emily (1857) -- Biography by bequest: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse, FRS by Edmund Gosse (1890) -- Writing for the establishment: Edmund's biographies of Philip and Emily -- The challenge to parental constructions: Father and Son (1907) -- Notes -- Disclosure statement -- References