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Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law

Lotte Fikkers author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Publishing:30th Apr '25

£90.00

This title is due to be published on 30th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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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 Diaries (1616-19) and Anne Halkett's 'True accountt' (c. 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. Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Lawshows 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.

ISBN: 9781399538138

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

240 pages