Table of Contents

Introduction: mapping the territory; 1. Margaret Hoby: the stewardship of time; 2. The construction of a life: the diaries of Lady Anne Clifford; 3. Pygmalion's image: the lives of Lucy Hutchinson; 4. Ann Fanshawe, private historian; 5. Romance and respectability: the autobiography of Anne Halkett; 6. Margaret Cavendish: shy person to blazing empress; Conclusion: 'the life of me'; Bibliography.

Promotional Information

This important contribution to early modern literary studies and gender studies illuminates the interactions between literature and autobiography.

About the Author

Sharon Seelig is Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College, Massachusetts.

Reviews

' ... effectively dismantles the often gendered dichotomy between manuscript and print.' Times Literary Supplement 'In her book on women's life-writings in the seventeenth century. Sharon Cadman Seelig has given us a balanced and insightful study of six English noblemen and their self-representations in their own autobiographical accounts. ... outstanding study of women's life-writings in the seventeenth century.' Sixteenth Century Journal