This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015. This set of three lectures on ‘Rewriting the Self’, were delivered as part of Panel 3b. The speakers were (in order) Chair: Alexis Wolf, Speakers: Susan Civale: Canterbury Christ Church University, ‘”Beyond the Power of Utterance”: Reading the Linguistic Gaps in Mary Robinson’s Memoirs (1801)’, Elizabeth Denlinger, New York Public Library, ‘Horrid Mysteries of Cl Cl 26: A Tale of Mothers and Daughters’ and Ceylan Kosker, University of Aberystwyth ‘A Woman’s [Failed] Quest For Her Own Story: Violet Fane’s Fragmentary Memoirs’.