Life of Rachel Speght

Life of Rachel Speght

A Forward Woman

Stringer, Helen M.

Liverpool University Press

03/2025

224

Dura

Inglês

9781837644797

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'Unto her Sex a faithfull friend': Introduction


'Crowning Citie': a London childhood (c.1597-c.1611)


'A Comet, that bodes Mischief': gaining an education (c.1611-16)


'I being out of all feare': A Mouzzell for Melastromus (1616-17)


'Off-spring of my indevour': Mortalities Memorandum (1617-21)


'This worlds Paradise': marriage and motherhood (1621-31)


'In a uncouth land': the first years at Stradishall (1631-c.1644)


'Raising or fomentinge ... faction': sequestration and protest (1644-47)


'Epilogue of life': death and an inconclusive ending


'Forward Writers, and criticall Readers': Conclusion
Jacobean literature;early modern history;women's writing;life-writing;Joseph Swetnam