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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 2 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Chronology 10 Introduction 12 1. Lady Mary Carey 46 2. Elizabeth Major 69 3. Gertrude More 92 4. Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln 114 5. Brilliana, Lady Harley 133 6. ‘Eliza’ 155 7. An anonymous gentlewoman 185 8. Lady Elizabeth Delaval 206 9. Katherine Sutton 229 10. Hannah Allen 247 Bibliography 267 Index of biblical allusions 275 General index 277 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2016,ISBN:9781526111012,Language:English,OCLC:953030281 This anthology makes accessible to readers ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period. Providing a detailed and engaging introduction to the issues confronted when studying women’s writing from this era, the anthology also examines female interpretations of illness, exploring beliefs that toothache and miscarriage could be God’s punishments, but also, paradoxically, that such terrible suffering could be understood as proof that a believer was eternally beloved. The extracts in the anthology explore how illness was an importa
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- Author
- Adcock, Rachel;Read, Sara;Ziomek, Anna
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781526111005
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Science, Literary Collections
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