Table of Contents: Genre and women's life writing in early modern England /

Other Authors:	Dowd, Michelle M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot : Ashgate, 2007.
Series:	Women and gender in the early modern world
Subjects:	Women's studies > Biographical methods. > England Women > Social conditions > 16th century. > England Women > Social conditions > 17th century. > England Autobiography > Women authors. Biography as a literary form. English prose literature. Literary form. Women and literature. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory. Women > Social conditions. Women's studies > Biographical methods. England.
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Table of Contents:

"Free and easy as ones discourse"? : genre and self-expression in the poems and letters of early modern Englishwomen / Helen Wilcox
Domestic papers : manuscript culture and early modern women's life writing / Margaret J.M. Ezell
"Many hands hands" : writing the self in early modern women's recipe books / Catherine Field
Serial identity : history, gender, and form in the diary writing of Lady Anne Clifford / Megan Matchinske
Merging the secular and the spiritual in Lady Anne Halkett's memoirs / Mary Ellen Lamb
Prefacing texts, authorizing authors, and constructing selves : the preface as autobiographical space / Julie A. Eckerle
Structures of piety in Elizabeth Richardson's Legacie / Michelle M. Dowd
Intersubjectivity, intertextuality, and form in the self-writings of Margaret Cavendish / Elspeth Graham
Margaret Cavendish's domestic experiment / Lara Dodds
"That All the World May Know " : women's "defense-narratives" and the early novel / Josephine Donovan.