Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law
Reconstructs the everyday life of women in the early modern period through the traces they left in the records of English courts of lawApplies a literary lens to early modern legal records (bills, answers, depositions)Reads legal records alongside more recognisable forms of women’s life-writingGains...
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| Abstract | Reconstructs the everyday life of women in the early modern period through the traces they left in the records of English courts of lawApplies a literary lens to early modern legal records (bills, answers, depositions)Reads legal records alongside more recognisable forms of women’s life-writingGains access to stories of those who did not leave other traces of their livesArgues that the collaborative nature of legal records is a characteristic of early modern literary productionWill be of interest to students and scholars of early modern women’s writing and law and literature, as well as those with a wider interest in early modern English cultureDespite 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. |
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| AbstractList | Reconstructs the everyday life of women in the early modern period through the traces they left in the records of English courts of lawApplies a literary lens to early modern legal records (bills, answers, depositions)Reads legal records alongside more recognisable forms of women’s life-writingGains access to stories of those who did not leave other traces of their livesArgues that the collaborative nature of legal records is a characteristic of early modern literary productionWill be of interest to students and scholars of early modern women’s writing and law and literature, as well as those with a wider interest in early modern English cultureDespite 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. Reconstructs the everyday life of women in the early modern period through the traces they left in the records of English courts of law. 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. |
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| TableOfContents | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Preface -- Notes and Conventions -- Introduction: Tracing Early Modern Women's Lives -- 1. Constraints of the Courtroom and its Records -- 2. Courtship and Marriage -- 3. Sex and Slander -- 4. Widows -- 5. Afterlives: Case Studies in the Production of Alternative Truths -- Conclusion: Shared Strategies in Women's Self-Representation -- Bibliography -- Index Conclusion: Shared Strategies in Women’s Self-Representation -- Contents -- Chapter 3 Sex and Slander -- Chapter 5 Afterlives: Case Studies in the Production of Alternative Truths -- Index Chapter 1 Constraints of the Courtroom and its Records -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and Conventions -- Introduction: Tracing Early Modern Women’s Lives -- Chapter 4 Widows -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Frontmatter -- Chapter 2 Courtship and Marriage -- Bibliography -- |
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