Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law
Despite the plethora of early modern life-writing (diaries, (auto)biographies, memoirs), it remains difficult to reconstruct a picture of everyday female experience - as women chose to tell it - from this extant corpus. The vast majority of examples are penned by men; only a handful of texts by earl...
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| description | Despite the plethora of early modern life-writing (diaries, (auto)biographies, memoirs), it remains difficult to reconstruct a picture of everyday female experience - as women chose to tell it - from this extant corpus. The vast majority of examples are penned by men; only a handful of texts by early modern women are immediately recognisable as autobiographies and diaries, such as Anne Clifford’s <i>Diaries </i>(1616-19) and Anne Halkett’s ‘True accountt’ (<i>c</i>. 1677/8). Moreover, the few examples we do have are not representative of women’s life stories in general, as there are no known diaries or autobiographies by women below the level of the middle ranks. <i>Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law</i><i> </i>shows how legal records form an alternative type of life-writing, especially for women, and that thousands of lives are yet to be uncovered from the legal archives. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1579002025-07-29T21:47:00Z Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law Fikkers, Lotte Literary Criticism Women Authors Literary Criticism Modern 17th Century Literary Criticism Subjects & Themes Women bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism Despite the plethora of early modern life-writing (diaries, (auto)biographies, memoirs), it remains difficult to reconstruct a picture of everyday female experience - as women chose to tell it - from this extant corpus. The vast majority of examples are penned by men; only a handful of texts by early modern women are immediately recognisable as autobiographies and diaries, such as Anne Clifford’s <i>Diaries </i>(1616-19) and Anne Halkett’s ‘True accountt’ (<i>c</i>. 1677/8). Moreover, the few examples we do have are not representative of women’s life stories in general, as there are no known diaries or autobiographies by women below the level of the middle ranks. <i>Early Modern Women’s Life-Writing and English Law</i><i> </i>shows how legal records form an alternative type of life-writing, especially for women, and that thousands of lives are yet to be uncovered from the legal archives. 2025-03-28T08:39:55Z 2025-03-28T08:39:55Z 2025-03-27T05:32:08Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100358 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/157900 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100358/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/100358/1/external_content.pdf Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh University Press 208d7ab7-a2e4-4c7f-83b1-53dfb4ba4a35 Knowledge Unlatched Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Open Services Edinburgh University Press open access |
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