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

by Isaac Stephens

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1784991430

ISBN13:9781784991432

Release Date:July 2016

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.28 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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