Women's writing in Stuart England : the mother's legacies of Dorothy Leigh, Elizabeth Joscelin, and Elizabeth Richardson

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    • Brown, Sylvia

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Women's writing in Stuart England : the mother's legacies of Dorothy Leigh, Elizabeth Joscelin, and Elizabeth Richardson

edited by Sylvia Brown

Sutton, 1999

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [259]-260

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ISBN 9780750918541

内容説明

"It may peradventure ...appear strange to thee to recyve theas lines from a mother that dyed when thou weart born". So writes Elizabeth Joscelin to her unborn daughter, shortly before dying in childbirth on 12 October, 1622. As a godly woman, Joscelin was aware of her duty to instruct her child in religion. Prophetically fearing her death, she chose to embody her instruction in a text, a mother's legacy, through which she could (as it were) speak to her child from the dead. In 1624, a Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Goad, published Joscelin's legacy for a wider audience - but with significant changes. This edition reproduces Joscelin's own manuscript, complete with her authorial revisions as well as notes of Goad's cuts and corrections. The result is a story of textual and cultural negotiations: not merely of Goad editing Joscelin, but also of Joscelin editing herself. Joscelin's legacy is presented with the mothers' legacies of two of her contemporaries: Elizabeth Richardson's "A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters" (1654), reproducing the autograph corrections of a copy presented to the author's brother, and Dorothy Leigh's "The Mothers Blessing" (1616), which may have been the model for the two other works. Together, the three works offer evidence of the ways in which a distinctive genre of early modern women's writing was written and received.

目次

  • Part 1 Dorothy Leigh: introduction to Dorothy Leigh - "The Mothers Blessing"
  • "The Mothers Blessing" (1616). Part 2 Elizabeth Joscelin: Elizabeth Joscelin - introduction
  • Elizabeth Joscelin's manuscript mother's legacy. Part 3 Elizabeth Richardson: introduction to Elizabeth Richardson - "A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters" (1645)
  • "A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters" (1645). Appendices: excerpts from Folger MS. V.a.511
  • title page of ASH 3501, East Sussex Record Office
  • prayers from ASH 3501, fols. 19r-v.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780750918558

内容説明

This title incorporates "mother's legacies" - books written to children by their mothers who died before they were born. In addition, there is a discursive introduction which places these texts in their historical and literary contexts and addresses the scope of women's writing.

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