Description
| Product ID: | 9781649590244 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations |
| Authors: | Author: Lady Anne Halkett, Suzanne Trill |
| Page Count: | 428 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, General and world history, History, Gender studies: women and girls, General & world history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Gender studies: women, c 1600 to c 1700 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray) grew up on the fringes of the English court during a period of increasing political tension. From 1644 to 1699, Halkett recorded her personal and political experiences in both England and Scotland in a series of manuscript meditations and an autobiographical narrative called A True Account of My Life. Royalism, romance, and contemporary religious debates are central to Halkett’s vivid portrayal of her life as a single woman, wife, mother, and widow. Collectively, the materials edited here offer the opportunity to explore how Halkett’s meditational practice informed her life writing in the only version of her writings to date available in a fully modernized edition. The forty-four meditations in this volume redefine the importance of Halkett’s contribution to seventeenth-century life writing. |
| Imprint Name: | Iter Press |
| Publisher Name: | Iter Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-01-11 |
