Women'S Life Writing And Early Modern Ireland (Women And Gender In The Early Modern World)

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WomenÆs Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century womenÆs life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from Englandùeven though many of these writers would have identified themselves as Englishùand making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate womenÆs narratives in a powerful and revealing landscape. This volume addresses a range of genres, from letters to book marginalia, and a number of different women, from now-canonical life writers such as Mary Rich and Ann Fanshawe to far less familiar figures such as Eliza Blennerhassett and the correspondents and supplicants of William King, archbishop of Dublin. The writings of the Boyle sisters and the Duchess of Ormondeùwomen from the two most important families in seventeenth-century Irelandùalso receive a thorough analysis. These innovative and nuanced scholarly considerations of the powerful influence of Ireland on these writersÆ construction of self, provide fresh, illuminating insights into both their writing and their broader cultural context.