autobiography
(ˌɔːtəʊbaɪˈɒgrəfɪ, -bɪˈɒg-)
[f. auto-1 + biography n. Neither this nor any of its derivatives are in Todd 1818; only Autobiography in Craig 1847.]
The writing of one's own history; the story of one's life written by himself.
| 1797 Monthly Review 2nd Ser. XXIV. 375 It is not very usual in English to employ hybrid words partly Saxon and partly Greek: yet autobiography would have seemed pedantic. 1809 Southey in Q. Rev. I. 283 This very amusing and unique specimen of autobiography. 1828 Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 154 What would we give for such an Autobiography of Shakspeare. 1859 B. Powell Ord. Nat. 252 Geology (as Sir C. Lyell has so happily expressed it) is ‘the autobiography of the earth.’ |