Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-203) and index.
Contents:
"Free and easy as ones discourse"? : genre and self-expression in the poems and letters of early modern Englishwomen / Helen Wilcox -- Domestic papers : manuscript culture and early modern women's life writing / Margaret J. M. Ezell -- "Many hands hands" : writing the self in early modern women's recipe books / Catherine Field -- Serial identity : history, gender, and form in the diary writing of Lady Anne Clifford / Megan Matchinske -- Merging the secular and the spiritual in Lady Anne Halkett's memoirs / Mary Ellen Lamb -- Prefacing texts, authorizing authors, and constructing selves : the preface as autobiographical space / Julie A. Eckerle -- Structures of piety in Elizabeth Richardson's Legacie / Michelle M. Dowd -- Intersubjectivity, intertextuality, and form in the self-writings of Margaret Cavendish / Elspeth Graham -- Margaret Cavendish's domestic experiment / Lara Dodds -- "That All the World May Know " : women's "defense-narratives" and the early novel / Josephine Donovan.
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