A wide array of documents, many of which have been unavailable since their original publication, is included: memoirs of individual and family life, travel narratives, letters, appeals for funds, testimonies of spiritual conversion, and scandalous memoirs. The writers represented here range from ladies to servants, from spinsters to courtesans, from actresses to poets, from wronged wives to wives of men engaged in British colonization. A comprehensive introduction by the editors explores the material conditions of women's lives in Restoration and eighteenth-century Britain and critically examines the genre of autobiography. Each selection is preceded by an explanatory headnote that places the document in its historical, cultural, and social contexts.
- ISBN10 1555534325
- ISBN13 9781555534325
- Publish Date 9 June 2000 (first published 1 June 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 September 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northeastern University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 416
- Language English