The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke 1671–1714

ISBN-13: 9780521808088 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 364 str.

Raymond A. Anselment (University of Connecticut)

Opis

Elizabeth Freke's accounts of her late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Norfolk gentry world are the basis for a new critical edition of her autobiography. A complexly contradictory woman caught in an unhappy domestic life, she consciously constructed and reconstructed an identity as a wife, mother, and widow. By preserving two quite often different manuscript versions, the edition provides a new appreciation of a distinct self-image among early modern women's autobiography.

Recenzje

"With this new edition of her remembrances, Elizabeth Freke can finally take her place among the canon of ealry modern female diarists." Documentary Editing

Spis treści

Abbreviations; Introduction; I. Remembrances, 1671–1714; II. Remembrances 1671–1713; III. Miscellaneous documents; Index.