The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke 1671}}}1714 [Hardcover]

An account of Elizabeth Freke's late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Norfolk gentry world.The manuscript accounts of Elizabeth Freke's 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, Freke consciously constructed and reconstructed an identity as a wife, mother, and widow. By preserving the two quite often different manuscript versions, the edition provides a new appreciation of a self-image distinct, if not unique, among early modern women's autobiography.The manuscript accounts of Elizabeth Freke's 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, Freke consciously constructed and reconstructed an identity as a wife, mother, and widow. By preserving the two quite often different manuscript versions, the edition provides a new appreciation of a self-image distinct, if not unique, among early modern women's autobiography.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.Abbreviations; Introduction; I. Remembrances, 16711714; II. Remembrances 16711713; III. Miscellaneous documents; Index. With this new edition of her remembrances, Elizabeth Freke can finally take her place among the canon of ealry modern female diarists. Documentary Editing