Mrs. Elizabeth Freke
Author: Elizabeth Freke
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 143
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Mrs. Elizabeth Freke
Author: Elizabeth Freke
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 143
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke 1671-1714
Author: Elizabeth Freke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780521808088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn writing and then rewriting autobiographical remembrances recalling three decades of marriage and ensuing years of widowhood, Elizabeth Freke strikingly redefines the relationships among self, family, and patriarchy characteristic of early modern women's autobiography. Suffering and sacrifice dominate an extensive ledger of disappointment and bitterness that reveals over time the complex emotions of a Norfolk gentry woman seeking significance and even vindication in her hardships and frustrations. The infirm woman who eventually found herself utterly alone remained to the end a contentious, melodramatic, yet formidable figure - a strong-willed, even sympathetic person intent upon asserting herself against what she perceived as familial neglect and legal abuse. By making available both versions of the remembrances in their entirety, this new, multiple-text edition clarifies the refashioning inherent in each stage of writing and rewriting, recovering with unusual immediacy Freke's late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century domestic world.
Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England
Author: Michelle M. Dowd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1317129377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected here interrogate the discursive contours of gendered identity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The contributors explore how generic choice, mixture, and revision influence narrative constructions of the female self in early modern England. Collectively they situate women's life writings within the broader textual culture of early modern England while maintaining a focus on the particular rhetorical devices and narrative structures that comprise individual texts. Reconsidering women's life writing in light of recent critical trends-most notably historical formalism-this volume produces both new readings of early modern texts (such as Margaret Cavendish's autobiography and the diary of Anne Clifford) and a new understanding of the complex relationships between literary forms and early modern women's 'selves'. This volume engages with new critical methods to make innovative connections between canonical and non-canonical writing; in so doing, it helps to shape the future of scholarship on early modern women.
Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England
Author: Kenneth Charlton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-01-04
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 113467659X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen, Religion and Education in Early Modern England is a study of the nature and extent of the education of women in the context of both Protestant and Catholic ideological debates. Examining the role of women both as recipients and agents of religious instruction, the author assesses the nature of power endowed in women through religious education, and the restraints and freedoms this brought.
Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Sandra Cavallo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-30
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1317882768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new collection of essays brings together brand new research on widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors which looks generally at the conditions and constructions of widowhood in this period. This is followed by a range of essays which illuminate different dimensions of widowhood across Europe - in England, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. A particular attraction of the volume is the attention given to widowers, and the comparisons made between the male and female experience of widowhood. It is an exciting reinterpretation of the subject which will do much to undo the traditional stereotype of the widow. Contributing to the volume are: Jodi Bilinkoff, Giulia Calvi, Sandra Cavallo, Isabelle Chabot, Julia Crick, Amy Erikson, Dagmar Freist, Elizabeth Foyster, Margaret Pelling, Pamela Sharpe,Tim Stretton, Barbara Todd, and Lyndan Warner.
Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800
Author: Vivien Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-03-09
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780521586801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 2000, is an authoritative volume of new essays on women's writing and reading in the eighteenth century.
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries
Author: Book Builders LLC.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 817
ISBN-13: 1438108699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.
British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800
Author: Peter Clark
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000-01-06
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 0191542164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern freemasonry was invented in London about 1717, but was only one of a surge of British associations in the early modern era which had originated before the English Revolution. By 1800, thousands of clubs and societies had swept the country. Recruiting widely from the urban affluent classes, mainly amongst men, they traditionally involved heavy drinking, feasting, singing, and gambling. They ranged from political, religious and scientific societies, artistic and literary clubs, to sporting societies, bee keeping, and birdfancying clubs, and a myriad of other associations.
Birth, Marriage, and Death : Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
Author: David Cressy
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 1997-05-29
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 0191570761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the life-cycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the protestantism of the reformed Church, the spiritual and social dramas of birth, marriage, and death were graced with elaborate ceremony. Powerful and controversial protocols were in operation, shaped and altered by the influences of the Reformation, the Revolution, and the Restoration. Each of the major rituals was potentially an arena for argument, ambiguity, and dissent. Ideally, as classic rites of passage, these ceremonies worked to bring people together. But they also set up traps into which people could stumble, and tests which not everybody could pass. In practice, ritual performance revealed frictions and fractures that everyday local discourse attempted to hide or to heal. Using fascinating first-hand evidence, David Cressy shows how the making and remaking of ritual formed part of a continuing debate, sometimes strained and occasionally acrimonious, which exposed the raw nerves of society in the midst of great historical events. In doing so, he vividly brings to life the common experiences of living and dying in Tudor and Stuart England.
