This gave the works an air of fairy tales though the realism is still very evident (34 – 37). The only thing one could really get from these writings is an understanding of how people thought and made sense of their environment. These insights are used by Maynes to “trace the construction of class identities” (5) which is the basis of her book. The female perspective though is sorely lacking in numbers, an important half of the population. In most of the various genres of within autobiographies, such as s...
