Genre and women's life writing in early modern England

In: Women and gender in the early modern world

Abstract

"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 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