The chapter examines cultural hybridity and postcolonial tensions in two Ionian nineteenth century autobiographies. Martinegou's struggle with gender and class limitations and Lountzis's ambivalence between cosmopolitan and national self-understanding are analysed as inverted versions of autosociobiography. Class discomfort and temporal perspectives reflected in the self-fashioning narratives of the local aristocracy allow for methodological reflection on the stretch of a literary term still in development.