Letters and the post office : epistolary exchange in Jane Austen's Emma -- Towers in the distance : Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse -- Reflecting surfaces : mirrors and autobiography ; Life-writing, the body, and the mirror gaze : Virginia Woolf's "A sketch of the past" ; Is there life beyond the looking glass? : Vivian Gornick's Fierce attachments ; Autobiography : innocent pose or naturalistic lie? : Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John -- The image and the word, history and memory in the photographic age : Marguerite Duras's The lover -- Labyrinths and spiderwebs : Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony.