Matriarchal Exemplarity in Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance

Elizabeth Isham’s Booke of Rememberance (written 1638-9) has emerged in recent decades as one of the seventeenth century’s finest surviving examples of life-writing. Scholars have pointed, in particular, to Isham’s achievement in fashioning a fairly coherent self despite the generic hybridity of her...

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Main Author: Emma Rayner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2023-06-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/14331