The Gentlewoman's Remembrance: Patriarchy, Piety, and Singlehood in Early Stuart England - Couverture rigide

Stephens, Isaac

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1784991430 ISBN 13 : 9781784991432

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2016

Synopsis

A microhistory of a never-married English gentlewoman named Elizabeth Isham, this book centres on an extremely rare piece of women's writing - a recently discovered 60,000-word spiritual autobiography held in Princeton's manuscript collections that she penned around 1639. The autobiography is unmatched in providing an inside view of her family relations, her religious beliefs, her reading habits and, most sensationally, the reasons why she chose never to marry despite desires to the contrary held by her male kin, particularly Sir John Isham, her father. Based on the autobiography, combined with extensive research of the Isham family papers now housed at the county record office in Northampton, this book restores our historical memory of Elizabeth and her female relations, expanding our understanding and knowledge about patriarchy, piety and singlehood in early modern England.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Isaac Stephens is Assistant Professor of History at Saginaw Valley State University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784991430
• ISBN 13: 9781784991432
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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