| The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke 1671-1714 Contributor(s): Anselment, Raymond A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521808081 ISBN-13: 9780521808088 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $86.40 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Western Europe - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001025756 |
| Series: Camden Fifth |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.34 lbs) 364 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Elizabeth Freke's accounts of her late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Norfolk gentry world are the basis for a new critical edition of her autobiography. A complexly contradictory woman caught in an unhappy domestic life, she consciously constructed and reconstructed an identity as a wife, mother, and widow. By preserving two quite often different manuscript versions, the edition provides a new appreciation of a distinct self-image among early modern women's autobiography. |