Women, Memory, and History: Autobiographics as a Way of Confronting the Past and a Means of Creating the Future

In this paper, I use interdisciplinary research methods of literary theory, feminist theories, new historicism, psychology, memory studies, and social engagement studies in order to point at two groups of problems: 1. Untruthful memory of history and unreliable academic knowledge which transferred into all levels of national education and spread internationally; 2. epistemicide, memoricide and matricide or systematic destruction of knowledge, memory and heritage of important women from the past (sometimes executed by women themselves). Autobiographics of important women from the second half of the 19th century create contra memory to official representations of the past. As a self representational discourse, it can be one of the main ways of futurizing a vital feminist connection with education and the society's progress which happened at the time.