272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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An in-depth examination of Lady Anne Halkett's writing is long overdue. Although Lady Anne Halkett is beginning to receive much warranted critical attention, to date scholars have concentrated almost exclusively on her autobiographical 'Memoirs'. Consequently, her extensive 'Select and Occasional Meditations,' have been neglected or marginalised. While these texts are devotional in nature, they... Read more
Contents: Introduction; NLS. MS. 6490. 'Ocationall Meditations, 1658/9-60'; NLS. MS. 6491. 'Ocationall Meditations, 1660-63'; NLS MS. 6492. 'Occationall Meditations and Select Contemplations. Instructions to my Son , 1668-70/1'; NLS. MS. 6493. 'The Widows Mite, & Occationall Meditations, 1673-74'; B.L. Add. MS. 32,376. 'The Autobiography of Anne, Lady Halkett, 1677-78'; NLS. MS. 6497. 'Meditations, 1686/7-88'; NLS. MS. 6499. 'Ocationall Meditations, 1690-91'; NLS. MS. 6500. 'Of Watchfullnese, 1693/4-95'; NLS. MS. 6501. 'Select & Occationall Obseruations, 1696-97'; NLS. MS. 6502. 'Select and Occationall Meditations, 1697/8-99'; Bibliography; Index; Concordance of Biblical references.
Biography
Dr Suzanne Linda Trill is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at The University of Edinburgh, UK.
’Trill's editorial practices are exemplary: she describes each manuscript precisely; indicates marginal glosses; reproduces exact spelling, abbreviations, and original pagination, providing the technical information that scholars of early modern texts are eager to have.’ Renaissance Quarterly ’Suzanne Trill’s selection of self-writings by the seventeenth-century noblewoman, Lady Anne Halkett, forms a welcome addition to the prestigious Early Modern Englishwomen series edited by Betty Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescrott, a series that has done so much to rectify the gender balance of the early modern literary canon and to provide insights into how Englishwomen of all social ranks represented themselves and were represented by others. ... Thanks to her own scholarship, Trill has enabled a great many other scholars to gain access to Anne’s observations and meditations. Anyone interested in the political, religious or social history of Britain in the second half of the seventeenth century will find something of interest in this collection.’ Seventeenth-Century News
