Add to ORKGSometime in 1668 Alice Thornton of East Newton in County York deliberately sat down to write about her life. It had been her practice to write about her life. It had been her practice to write about her experiences since her "first youth and childhood" in some sort of diary form and these were now written up in a work called 'A Book of Remembrances'. This book in turn was later considerably fleshed out to become her 'Autobiography', and it is with this larger work (of some 280 pages) that I will be dealing with here
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This paper reads Alice Thornton's autobiography, one of the late seventeenth century female-authore...
The early modern period witnessed an explosion in the production of autobiographical writing. Despit...
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Autobiographical writing raises questions about ‘‘self”, writing and experience. The present article...
This article takes as its starting point a remarkable account of childbirth in the memoirs of a seve...
"A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England fr...
This thesis examines the development of Quaker women’s self-representation in autobiographical writi...
As Mary Jean Corbett in Representing Femininity (1992), Linda Peterson in Traditions of Victorian Wo...
My central premise in “Revised Lives” is that four English writers - Margaret Cavendish, Anne Halket...
This essay provides an overview of developments in studies of British women's life writing in the lo...
This thesis examines the spiritual lives of eighteenth-century English women through an analysis of ...
How did individuals write about their lives before a modern tradition of diaries and autobiographies...
PhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life writing at t...
Josephine Butler, controversial and pioneering feminist reformer of the late nineteenth-century, nev...
This paper reads Alice Thornton's autobiography, one of the late seventeenth century female-authore...
The early modern period witnessed an explosion in the production of autobiographical writing. Despit...
Emerging out of the traditions of exemplary lives and self-analysis at the beginning of the seventee...
Viewing Constance Maynard’s unwieldy life-writings within the tradition of spiritual autobiography r...
Autobiographical writing raises questions about ‘‘self”, writing and experience. The present article...
This article takes as its starting point a remarkable account of childbirth in the memoirs of a seve...
"A History of English Autobiography explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England fr...
This thesis examines the development of Quaker women’s self-representation in autobiographical writi...
As Mary Jean Corbett in Representing Femininity (1992), Linda Peterson in Traditions of Victorian Wo...
My central premise in “Revised Lives” is that four English writers - Margaret Cavendish, Anne Halket...
This essay provides an overview of developments in studies of British women's life writing in the lo...
This thesis examines the spiritual lives of eighteenth-century English women through an analysis of ...
How did individuals write about their lives before a modern tradition of diaries and autobiographies...
PhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life writing at t...
Josephine Butler, controversial and pioneering feminist reformer of the late nineteenth-century, nev...