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Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law

Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Lotte FikkersSeries:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance CulturePublish date:2025-04-30Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399538138ISBN-10:1399538136UPC:9781399538138Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Women Authors, ModernBook Topic:Women, 17th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCZ2BYSN9D
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 Law 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399538138ISBN-10:1399538136UPC:9781399538138Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Women Authors, ModernBook Topic:Women, 17th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCZ2BYSN9D
Fikkers, Lotte: - Lotte Fikkers is Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher in the English Department at Leiden University. Her research sits at the intersection of early modern law and literature, with a particular interest in early modern women's writing. Her postdoctoral work is part of the ERC Consolidator funded project FEATHERS, which investigates early modern collaboration and authorship.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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