Alice Thornton, Elizabeth Freke, and the Remembrances of Ireland
Among the writing of early modern English women, recollections of life in Ireland are less common than the English presence might suggest. The numerous formulaic depositions recorded in the months following the 1641 Irish uprising offer a vivid testimony of the atrocities and trauma English settlers...
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| Published in | Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland p. 23 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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UNP - Nebraska
01.06.2019
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| Summary: | Among the writing of early modern English women, recollections of life in Ireland are less common than the English presence might suggest. The numerous formulaic depositions recorded in the months following the 1641 Irish uprising offer a vivid testimony of the atrocities and trauma English settlers suffered; personal narratives of several women who defended their property against besieging forces have also survived.¹ Forms of self-writing from less troubled periods of the seventeenth century are not as extensive or as accessible. Letters women wrote from Ireland are now held often among family papers and in archives. Few diaries and memoirs that |
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| ISBN: | 9780803299979 0803299974 |