Personal Disclosures: An Anthology of Self-Writings from the Seventeenth Century

by Booy,David

• ISBN13: 9780754601210
• ISBN10: 0754601218
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781351911924
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-28
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Personal Disclosures innovatively stimulates and facilitates comparative analysis of female and male representations of the self, and of gendered constructions of identity and experience, by presenting a broad range of extracts from both women's and men's autobiographical writings. The majority of the extracts have been freshly edited from original seventeenth-century manuscripts and books.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface	x
Acknowledgements	xi
Permissions	xiii
General Introduction	1	(20)
Editorial Note	21	(6)
Marriage	27	(64)
Introduction	29	(12)
Letters to her Husband	41	(3)
Maria Thynne
Meditation on her Husband's Corpse	44	(3)
Grace Mildmay
Marriage Negotiations	47	(5)
Simonds D'Ewes
Family Letters	52	(8)
Adam
John
Margaret Winthrop
A Widow's Reflection on her Three Marriages	60	(5)
Martha Moulsworth
His Marriage and the Death of his Wife	65	(4)
Archibald Johnston
Letters to his Sister-in-Law and his Brother	69	(3)
Nicholas Ferrar
Being put in her Place by her Husband	72	(2)
Ann Fanshawe
His Marriage and the Death of His Wife	74	(5)
Oliver Heywood
His Wife's Daily Routine	79	(3)
Anthony Walker
An Altercation with her Husband and his Family	82	(4)
Alice Hayes
Reflections on an Unsatisfactory Husband	86	(5)
Elizabeth Freke
Parents and Children	91	(60)
Introduction	93	(12)
Letters to her Mother-in-Law	105	(3)
Maria Thynne
Memories of a Difficult Childhood	108	(3)
Thomas Shepard
Letters to her Son at University	111	(4)
Katherine Paston
Letters Between Brothers	115	(4)
Henry
James Oxinden
Battles with her Father over Matters of Faith	119	(5)
Catherine Holland
Problems in the Household	124	(4)
Archibald Johnston
The Death of her Baby Son	128	(2)
Katherine Philips
His Upbringing	130	(3)
Roger North
Conflict Between a Father and Daughter-in-Law	133	(4)
John
Ann Ferrar
Conflict with her Father over Matters of Faith	137	(8)
Agnes Beaumont
On his Children	145	(6)
Cotton Mather
Beyond the Family	151	(70)
Introduction	153	(14)
On Money Matters	167	(5)
Nehemiah Wallington
Leaving Home	172	(3)
John Dane
On her Prospective Sister-in-Law	175	(3)
Constantia Fowler
Experiences in the Civil Wars	178	(5)
Adam Martindale
Her Relationship with Thomas Howard	183	(5)
Anne Halkett
Difficulties as an Apprentice	188	(5)
Francis Kirkman
Ending her Engagement	193	(6)
Dorothy Osborne
Her Relationship with Mistress Carter	199	(5)
Elizabeth Delaval
Love and Friendship	204	(7)
Roger Lowe
Early Experiences as a Clergyman	211	(5)
Isaac Archer
Returning to his Native Village	216	(5)
Edward Barlow
States of Body, States of Mind	221	(70)
Introduction	223	(16)
His Chronic Illness	239	(4)
Richard Kilby
Being Tortured by the Spanish Inquisition	243	(4)
William Lithgow
On Being a Galley Slave	247	(2)
Francis Knight
Childhood Illness and Intellectual Development	249	(3)
Robert Boyle
Reflections on her Character and Personality	252	(5)
Margaret Cavendish
Experiences During a Time of War	257	(4)
Anne Halkett
Captivity Among The Iroquois	261	(6)
Pierre Radisson
Anxieties About his Sexual Health	267	(4)
Michael Wigglesworth
Development from Childhood to Early Manhood	271	(4)
George Wheler
Her Troubled State of Mind	275	(3)
Catherine Holland
Experience of Childbirth	278	(4)
Alice Thornton
Her Illness and the Death of her Adult Son	282	(3)
Mary Rich
Motivations for Writing, and Protracted Illness	285	(6)
Catherine Burton
Religious Experience	291	(72)
Introduction	293	(14)
Mental Breakdown and Recovery	307	(7)
Dionys Fitzherbert
Called by God to be a Prophet	314	(4)
Arise Evans
Experiences and Resolutions of a Nun	318	(6)
Lucy Knatchbull
Spiritual Turmoil as a Young Man	324	(4)
Thomas Shepard
Spiritual Turmoil as a Child and Young Man	328	(4)
John Rogers
His Trial, Punishment and Imprisonment	332	(4)
Henry Burton
Under Cross-Examination	336	(4)
Laurence Clarkson
Frances Marchant
Two Dreams of Christ	340	(4)
Mary Penington
Imprisonment for her Faith	344	(5)
Anna Trapnel
Punishment Meted Out to a Quaker	349	(2)
Dorothy Waugh
An Account of his Madness	351	(7)
George Trosse
The Spiritual Life of a Young Minister	358	(5)
Cotton Mather
New Worlds	363	(70)
Introduction	365	(14)
Negotiations with the Indians of Surat	379	(5)
Thomas Roe
Observations on the Khoikhoi People	384	(4)
Edward Terry
Trading on the River Gambra	388	(4)
Richard Jobson
A Letter from Virginia	392	(3)
Richard Frethorne
An Ice-Bound Winter	395	(4)
Thomas James
Soldiering in the Low Countries	399	(3)
Thomas Raymond
An Encounter with Two St Tiago Women	402	(4)
Richard Ligon
T.S.: A Prisoner of the Turks	406	(4)
Journeys in Ireland and to Spain and Frances	410	(5)
Ann Fanshawe
A Quaker's Experience in New England	415	(4)
Elizabeth Hooton
Captivity Among the Narragansetts	419	(5)
Mary Rowlandson
Buying and Transporting African Slaves	424	(5)
Thomas Phillips
Castaways in Florida	429	(4)
Jonathan Dickinson
Select Bibliography	433	(6)
Index	439