LEADER 03293oam 2200565I 450 001 9910154576203321 005 20210209204504.0 010 $a1-351-88258-9 010 $a1-315-23728-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315237282 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965689 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758206 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5121987 035 $a(OCoLC)965723518 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5121987 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL110408 035 $a(OCoLC)781293025 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965689 100 $a20180706e20162007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe rival widows, or, Fair libertine (1735) /$fedited by Tiffany Potter 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (209 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aThe Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions 300 $aFirst published 2007 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 $a0-7546-5478-8 311 $a1-351-88259-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $achapter Introduction -- chapter The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine. 330 $aNicky Hallett has uncovered a major new source of material by and about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This volume presents the women's voices in unmediated form, direct in all their vibrancy, with an extensive introduction that provides historical and cultural contexts for an understanding of the Lives, their sources and their authors. Lives of Spirit draws upon several remarkable sets of papers compiled in enclosed convents between 1619 and 1794. These documents show that religious women developed an astute system of auto/biographical practice within a protean political situation, and that, even in exile and from within enclosure, they sought to shape a distinctive contribution to devotional change within a reforming church. This volume reveals how the women's Lives challenge, as well as affirm, notions of gendered spirituality, refiguring traditions of female life-writing that extend from Catherine of Siena (1347 - 80) through the work of the Carmelite reformer, Teresa of Avila (1515 - 82), into the later modern period. The newness of the material in this book allows a radical reappraisal of the self-representation of religious women and of paradigms of life-writing in, and beyond, the early modern period. This book is of significant interest to scholars interested in early modern women's writing, female spirituality, and auto/biography more widely as a genre. 410 0$aEarly modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750.$pContemporary editions. 517 3 $aFair libertine 517 3 $aRival widows 606 $aWomen$xSocial conditions$y18th century$vDrama 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions 676 $a822/.5 700 $aCooper$cMrs.$g(Elizabeth),$factive 1737.,$0865595 701 $aPotter$b Tiffany$f1967-$0865596 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154576203321 996 $aThe rival widows, or, Fair libertine (1735)$91931827 997 $aUNINA