Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen

<p>This collection contains substantial extracts from the work of twelve seventeenth-century women from different walks of life, writing in a variety of forms covering an enormous range of topics including violence, travel, children and God.</p>

Graham, Elspeth

Hobby, Elaine

Wilcox, Helen

Hind, Hilary

Arts & Photography

Routledge

Virtue of Necessity: English Women's Writing 1649-88

In this fascinating survey of women's writing between 1649-88, Elaine Hobby draws on the extraordinary range of genres in which women expressed themselves: petitions, prophecies and religious writings, autobiography and biography, fiction, plays, poetry, and books on housewifery, medicine, midwifery, and education. Living under the "necessity" of their subjection, their writings show us how these women were able to make virtue of this - to turn constraints into permissions, into little pockets of liberty or autonomy, thus constantly defining and redefining existing concepts of femininity

Virtue of Necessity: English Women's Writing, 1649-88

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Univ of Michigan Pr

A survey of the genres by which 17th-century women expressed themselves.

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