四○年代的上海，出現女性作家以自傳手法描繪私人生活的文學風氣，書寫女性自身私密的生活經歷、生命體驗，實屬「女性私人化寫作」的先河，較著名的有蘇青《結婚十年》及其續集，和近乎湮沒不傳的潘柳黛《退職夫人自傳》，當時二書堪稱「雙璧」。本論文以潘柳黛成名作《退職夫人自傳》做闡析研究，除了一窺當時上海女性作家生命歷程、女性對於家庭、婚戀觀念及社會所遭遇的困難等面向，並藉以勾勒當時上海女性作家「女性私人化寫作」的圖景，或得以增補現今上海女性研究未曾浮出地表的一個斷片。

The 1940s in Shanghai, there was a fad of authoress to reveal their under life by means of autobiography which described their private daily happenings, and life experience. It's the antecedent of personalized writing. The famous one, Su Qing's Jiehunshinian along with its sequel and the approximately nowhere- Pan Liu Dai's Tuizhifuren Zizhuan was then, regarded as "geminating masterworks". This article unveiled the life adventure, female-family relationship, love concepts, and social frustrations of authoress, then, in Shanghai through Pan's representative work Thizhifuren Zizhuan. Meanwhile, we also expected to supplement the researches of Shanghai authoress' personalized writing.