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"Over the course of sixteen years - from 1700 to 1716 - Lady Sarah Cowper kept a truly remarkable diary, comprising over 2,300 pages of intimate commentary, not only on her personal life but also on religion, politics, and society in early modern England. Throughout this revealing text, she interweaves her own words with unattributed quotations from other writings - conduct manuals, sermons, periodicals, and other forms of prescriptive literature - in order to valorize her own identity and her claims to authority, both within her family and within a wider public sphere.". "Not only did Lady Cowper borrow the words of others, this "errant plagiarist" reordered and reshaped texts in ways that often subverted their original meaning. Her diary stands as a remarkably explicit record of how an eighteenth-century woman might read and actively interpret the gender and social ideologies of her era in ways that did not always fit the original intentions of the authors of prescriptive literature.". "Self-righteous, unhappy in her marriage, socially insecure, and under the stress of the murder trial of her youngest son, Sarah Cowper began her diary at the age of fifty-six. Using extensive extr

Author

Kugler, Anne

Publisher

Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804734189

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir