1st Edition

Life Writings I Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 1

By Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler Copyright 2001
456 Pages
by Routledge

456 Pages
by Routledge

Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiographers, sharing none of the current preoccupation with individuality and the unique self. The writers represented in this two-volume collection sought connections between particular events in their lives and the larger pattern of Christian salvation. The texts reproduced here are united in the way... Read more
Contents: Introductory Note; Frances Cook(e), Mris Cookes Meditations; Susanna Parr, Svsanna’s Apologie against the Elders; Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers, This is a Short Relation; Katherine Sutton, A Christian Womans Experiences; Anne Gerard Wyndham, Clavstrvm Regale Reseratvm; Sarah Davy, Heav’n Realiz’d.

Biography

Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler