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Chapter 6 - Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs as Autobiography

from Part II - Remaking the Literary World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2021

Pamela S. Hammons
Affiliation:
University of Miami
Brandie R. Siegfried
Affiliation:
Brigham Young University, Utah
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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 Women
Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture
, pp. 106 - 119
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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