History and autobiography work in t...

History and autobiography work in the same way as narrative: they use
the same linguistic make and they are both fictions, in that
they ready variations and manipulations of generally received time to the
reader.
--Carolyn Kay Steedman, "History and Autobiography" (48)

I behold the fissure in the make liable (the very thing about which be can
say nothing).
--Roland Barthes by the agency of Roland Barthes (3)

In her memoir Landscape for a worthy Woman: A Story of sum of two units Lives, Carolyn Kay Steedman describes her experiences in gradually uncovering the facts of her