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Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women's life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from England-even though many of these writers would have identified themselves as English-and making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate women's narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape.
This volume addresses a range of genres, from letters to book marginalia, and a number of different women, from now-canonical life writers such as Mary Rich and Ann Fanshawe to far less familiar figures such as Eliza Blennerhassett and the correspondents and supplicants of William King, archbishop of Dublin. The writings of the Boyle sisters and the Duchess of Ormonde-women from the two most important families in seventeenth-century Ireland-also receive a thorough analysis. These innovative and nuanced scholarly considerations of the powerful influence of Ireland on these writers' construction of self, provide fresh, illuminating insights into both their writing and their broader cultural context.
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Introduction: Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland - Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreavey
1. Alice Thornton, Elizabeth Freke, and the Remembrances of Ireland - Raymond A. Anselment
2. ""Like fishes out of the water"": Reading Dislocation and Emotion in the Writings of Alice Thornton, Ann Fanshawe, and Barbara Blaugdone - Anne Fogarty
3. The Boyle Women: A Paradigm of Familial Life Writing - Ann-Maria Walsh
4. Life Writing in the Boyle Family Network - Amelia Zurcher
5. The Politics of Honor in Lady Ranelagh's Ireland - Ruth Connolly
6. The Place of Ireland in the Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde - Naomi McAreavey
7. ""the only suports of my spirits"": English-Irish Social Networks in the Seventeenth Century - Amanda E. Herbert
8. ""all the beggers of Ireland"": Women's Letters in The Lyons Collection of the Correspondence of William King - Julie A. Eckerle
9. ""We came into that ugely playce Ierland upon may ye 23 1677"": Ownership Inscriptions and Life Writing in the Books of Early Modern Women - Jason McElligott
Note on Sources: Archives, Female Life Writers, and Early Modern Ireland - Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreavey
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