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- World-Making Renaissance Women
- World-Making Renaissance Women
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Literary Contours of Women’s World-Making
- Part I Early Modern Women Framing the Modern World
- Part II Remaking the Literary World
- Chapter 5 Uncloseted: Geography and Early Modern Women’s Dramatic Writing
- Chapter 6 Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs as Autobiography
- Chapter 7 Commonplace Genres, or Women’s Interventions in Non-Traditional Literary Forms: Madame de Sablé, Aphra Behn, and the Maxim
- Chapter 8 Form, Formalism, and Literary Studies: The Case of Margaret Cavendish
- Part III Connecting the Social Worlds of Religion, Politics, and Philosophy
- Part IV Rethinking Early Modern Types and Stereotypes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 6 - Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs as Autobiography
from Part II - Remaking the Literary World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2021
- World-Making Renaissance Women
- World-Making Renaissance Women
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Literary Contours of Women’s World-Making
- Part I Early Modern Women Framing the Modern World
- Part II Remaking the Literary World
- Chapter 5 Uncloseted: Geography and Early Modern Women’s Dramatic Writing
- Chapter 6 Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs as Autobiography
- Chapter 7 Commonplace Genres, or Women’s Interventions in Non-Traditional Literary Forms: Madame de Sablé, Aphra Behn, and the Maxim
- Chapter 8 Form, Formalism, and Literary Studies: The Case of Margaret Cavendish
- Part III Connecting the Social Worlds of Religion, Politics, and Philosophy
- Part IV Rethinking Early Modern Types and Stereotypes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Quite recently, David Norbrook observed that Lucy Hutchinson’s The Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson has “fallen into eclipse” because it is widely understood as a “romance” of the regicide John Hutchinson. Indeed, critics have long read The Memoirs as a partisan history composed to protect the Colonel’s legacy as a devout Calvinist and faithful parliamentarian officer after his death. Complicating matters is the fact that Lucy Hutchinson’s self-writing in Memoirs is often incomplete and cursory, subsumed by her narration of her husband’s political and military career, overshadowed by her detailed accounts of local or national politics, or even purposefully obscured in her effort to preserve John’s masculine authority and posthumous reputation.
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- World-Making Renaissance WomenRethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture, pp. 106 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021