Introduction : broken narratives : textual and visual interfaces -- Auto/biography and the portrait : Rosa Bonheur and Anna Klumpke -- The art of moving : narrative technologies in the memoir of Sofia Laskaridou -- Epistolary geographies and smooth spaces : unfolding Gwen John -- Landscapes for the self : Carrington's letters, drawings and paintings -- Narratives as assemblages : Mary Bradish Titcomb -- Narrative pleasures : ethics, aesthetics and politics