Women's Autobiographies on the Age of the Revolutionary Wars

This bibliography focuses on women's autobiographies, diaries and memoirs (as well as a few letter connections). These authors participated in and/or lived through various, Western armed conflict and wrote about their experiences in English, French, German or Russian.

The most important wars included for this period are:

  • American Revolutionary Wars (1775–83)
  • French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars War (1792–1815)
  • Latin American Wars of Independence (1810–30)

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Bell, Jerri, and Tracy Crow. It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan. Lincoln, NB: Potomac Books; University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Brown, Marvin L. Baroness von Riedesel and the American Revolution. Journal and Correspondence of a Tour of Duty, 1776-1783. Chapel Hill, NC: University of Carolina Press, 1965.
Callcott, Maria, and Elizabeth Mavor. The Captain's Wife: The South American Journals of Maria Graham, 1821-23. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1993.
Clyman, Toby W., and Judith Vowles. Russia through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996.
Coghlan, Margaret. Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan. New York: Arno Press, 1971.
Drinker, Elizabeth. The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker: The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman, Edited by Elaine Forman Crane. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Durova, Nadezhda. The Cavalry Maiden: Journals of a Russian Officer in the Napoleonic Wars. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989.
Engel, Regula. Frau Oberst Engel: Memoiren einer Amazone aus Napoleonischer Zeit. Zurich: Limmat-Verlag, 2009.
Harris, Benjamin, and Henry Curling. Recollections of Rifleman Harris. New York: R.M. McBride, 1929.
Martin, Joseph Plumb. Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary War Adventures of Joseph Plumb Martin. St. James, NY: Brandywine Press, 1993.
Van Dedem, Antoine-Baudouin-Gisbert, and Elisabeth Lecky. Un Général Hollandais sous le Premier Empire: Mémoires du Général Baron de Dedem de Gelder, 1774–1825. Paris: Plon-Nourrit & Compagnie, 1900.