This is a wonderfully rich study,...We now understand as never before just what is going on in the Memoirs, how the text comes to be as it is, and just how artfully skilful is its author.
Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille is a Senior Lecturer in British Studies at the Université de Rouen Normandie and a member of the research team ERIAC. Her research, at the intersection of literature and history, focuses on gender, historiography, and politics in seventeenth-century England. In 2005 she published her first monograph, La Cuisine et le forum: L'émergence des femmes sur la scène publique pendant la Révolution anglaise, and, with Géraldine Vaughan, she edited Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600-2000: practices, representations and ideas (2020).