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The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke 1671-1714
Elizabeth Freke
出版Cambridge University Press, 2001
主題Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalFamily & Relationships / Death, Grief, BereavementHistory / Europe / WesternHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / RenaissanceHistory / WomenMedical / Terminal CareSocial Science / Sociology / Marriage & FamilySocial Science / Women's StudiesSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN05218080819780521808088
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Y0ZVWowEMOwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In writing and then rewriting autobiographical remembrances recalling three decades of marriage and ensuing years of widowhood, Elizabeth Freke strikingly redefines the relationships among self, family, and patriarchy characteristic of early modern women's autobiography. Suffering and sacrifice dominate an extensive ledger of disappointment and bitterness that reveals over time the complex emotions of a Norfolk gentry woman seeking significance and even vindication in her hardships and frustrations. The infirm woman who eventually found herself utterly alone remained to the end a contentious, melodramatic, yet formidable figure - a strong-willed, even sympathetic person intent upon asserting herself against what she perceived as familial neglect and legal abuse. By making available both versions of the remembrances in their entirety, this new, multiple-text edition clarifies the refashioning inherent in each stage of writing and rewriting, recovering with unusual immediacy Freke's late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century domestic world.