ABSTRACT

During a period when writing was often the only form of self-expression for women, Her Own Life contains extracts from the autobiographical texts of twelve seventeenth-century women addressing a wide range of issues central to their lives.

chapter |17 pages

Anne Clifford

chapter |17 pages

An Collins

chapter |15 pages

Anna Trapnel

chapter |13 pages

Margaret Cavendish

chapter |15 pages

Susanna Parr

chapter |15 pages

Mary Carleton

chapter |17 pages

Alice Thornton

chapter |14 pages

Sarah Davy

chapter |16 pages

Anne Wentworth

chapter |13 pages

Hannah Allen

chapter |13 pages

Joan Vokins