Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature
Subtitle: Reading Women's Lives, 16001680
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 20, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780521856959
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Autobiography; Women Authors
First sentence: The diary of Lady Margaret Hoby is the earliest, and in many ways the least fully developed of the texts I consider; at times simply a sketch of her daily activities and religious observance, it is at the other end of the scale from the narratives with which I conclude this study.