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Gentlewoman's Remembrance Patriarchy, Piety, and Singlehood in Early Stuart England

Stephens Isaac
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781784991432
Publisert
2016-07-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Manchester University Press
Vekt
581 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Stephens Isaac

Om bidragsyterne

Isaac Stephens is Assistant Professor of History at Saginaw Valley State University

Gentlewoman's Remembrance Patriarchy, Piety, and Singlehood in Early Stuart England

Stephens Isaac
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
Stephens Isaac
Innbundet / 2016 / Engelsk
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‘This is chiefly a searching analysis of a single text, the long-forgotten spiritual autobiography of the Northamptonshire spinster Elizabeth Isham (1609-54), and the window it opens on to 17th-century familial and gender relations and the religious spectrum of the period. Almost erased from memory by the male members of her family and by later male custodians of the family archive, for whom singlehood was at best an embarrassment, Isham’s diary proves an immensely rewarding quarry for Stephens to mine. Its author, a ‘Puritan Nun’ and ‘Prayer Book Puritan’, compels historians to refine many accepted generalisations about women’s history and religious history and recognise that ‘exceptions’ were often the ‘norm’.’
R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history, University of Winchester, Times Higher Education – What are you reading? 16 November 2017

- .,

A microhistory of a never-married English gentlewoman named Elizabeth Isham, this book centres on an extremely rare piece of women's writing - a recently discovered 60,000-word spiritual autobiography held in Princeton's manuscript collections that she penned around 1639. The autobiography is unmatched in providing an inside view of her family relations, her religious beliefs, her reading habits and, most sensationally, the reasons why she chose never to marry despite desires to the contrary held by her male kin, particularly Sir John Isham, her father. Based on the autobiography, combined with extensive research of the Isham family papers now housed at the county record office in Northampton, this book restores our historical memory of Elizabeth and her female relations, expanding our understanding and knowledge about patriarchy, piety and singlehood in early modern England.
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A highly original and detailed study of an individual single woman in early modern England, based on a recently discovered spiritual autobiography authored by a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham. Provides new perspective on women's writing, identity and status in the early modern period.
Les mer
Introduction: Finding and remembering Elizabeth Isham1. 'My Booke of Rememberance': the spiritual autobiography of Elizabeth Isham2. 'As a Branch with a Roote': The Ishams of Lamport and their world 3. 'The Sweet Private Life': Singlehood in the patriarch's household4. 'My Owne Books': Elizabeth Isham's reading5. 'To Piety More Prone': Elizabeth Isham's religion Conclusion: A memory restored Index
Les mer
The gentlewoman's remembrance provides a microhistory of a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham, in early modern England. It is centred on an extremely rare piece of women's writing - a relatively newly discovered 60,000-word spiritual autobiography that Elizabeth penned circa 1639 - held in Princeton's manuscript collections. The autobiography is among the richest extant sources related to early modern women and offers a wealth of information not only in relation to Elizabeth's life but also the seventeenth-century Ishams. Indeed, it is unmatched in providing an inside view of her family relations, her religious beliefs, her reading habits, and, most sensationally, the reasons why she chose never to marry despite desires to the contrary held by her male kin, particularly her father, Sir John Isham. Based on the autobiography, combined with extensive research of the Isham family papers now housed at the county record office in Northampton, the book recreates Elizabeth's world, placing her in the larger community of Northamptonshire and reconstructing her family life and the patriarchal authority that she lived under at her home of Lamport Hall. This reconstruction of our historical memory of Elizabeth and her female relations demonstrates why she wrote her autobiography and the influence that family and religion had on her unmarried state, reading, and confessional identity, expanding our understanding and knowledge about patriarchy, piety, and singlehood in early modern England.The gentlewoman's remembrance will be of particular interest to students and lecturers in early modern British history.
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‘This is chiefly a searching analysis of a single text, the long-forgotten spiritual autobiography of the Northamptonshire spinster Elizabeth Isham (1609-54), and the window it opens on to 17th-century familial and gender relations and the religious spectrum of the period. Almost erased from memory by the male members of her family and by later male custodians of the family archive, for whom singlehood was at best an embarrassment, Isham’s diary proves an immensely rewarding quarry for Stephens to mine. Its author, a ‘Puritan Nun’ and ‘Prayer Book Puritan’, compels historians to refine many accepted generalisations about women’s history and religious history and recognise that ‘exceptions’ were often the ‘norm’.’
R. C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history, University of Winchester, Times Higher Education – What are you reading? 16 November 2017

- .,

A microhistory of a never-married English gentlewoman named Elizabeth Isham, this book centres on an extremely rare piece of women's writing - a recently discovered 60,000-word spiritual autobiography held in Princeton's manuscript collections that she penned around 1639. The autobiography is unmatched in providing an inside view of her family relations, her religious beliefs, her reading habits and, most sensationally, the reasons why she chose never to marry despite desires to the contrary held by her male kin, particularly Sir John Isham, her father. Based on the autobiography, combined with extensive research of the Isham family papers now housed at the county record office in Northampton, this book restores our historical memory of Elizabeth and her female relations, expanding our understanding and knowledge about patriarchy, piety and singlehood in early modern England.
Les mer
A highly original and detailed study of an individual single woman in early modern England, based on a recently discovered spiritual autobiography authored by a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham. Provides new perspective on women's writing, identity and status in the early modern period.
Les mer
Introduction: Finding and remembering Elizabeth Isham1. 'My Booke of Rememberance': the spiritual autobiography of Elizabeth Isham2. 'As a Branch with a Roote': The Ishams of Lamport and their world 3. 'The Sweet Private Life': Singlehood in the patriarch's household4. 'My Owne Books': Elizabeth Isham's reading5. 'To Piety More Prone': Elizabeth Isham's religion Conclusion: A memory restored Index
Les mer
The gentlewoman's remembrance provides a microhistory of a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham, in early modern England. It is centred on an extremely rare piece of women's writing - a relatively newly discovered 60,000-word spiritual autobiography that Elizabeth penned circa 1639 - held in Princeton's manuscript collections. The autobiography is among the richest extant sources related to early modern women and offers a wealth of information not only in relation to Elizabeth's life but also the seventeenth-century Ishams. Indeed, it is unmatched in providing an inside view of her family relations, her religious beliefs, her reading habits, and, most sensationally, the reasons why she chose never to marry despite desires to the contrary held by her male kin, particularly her father, Sir John Isham. Based on the autobiography, combined with extensive research of the Isham family papers now housed at the county record office in Northampton, the book recreates Elizabeth's world, placing her in the larger community of Northamptonshire and reconstructing her family life and the patriarchal authority that she lived under at her home of Lamport Hall. This reconstruction of our historical memory of Elizabeth and her female relations demonstrates why she wrote her autobiography and the influence that family and religion had on her unmarried state, reading, and confessional identity, expanding our understanding and knowledge about patriarchy, piety, and singlehood in early modern England.The gentlewoman's remembrance will be of particular interest to students and lecturers in early modern British history.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781784991432
Publisert
2016-07-14
Utgiver
Vendor
Manchester University Press
Vekt
581 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Stephens Isaac

Om bidragsyterne

Isaac Stephens is Assistant Professor of History at Saginaw Valley State University

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