Seventeenth-century manuscript sources of Alice Thornton's life

SEL - Studies in English Literature

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 135-155

  Anselment, Raymond A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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EID: 60950413511     PISSN: 00393657     EISSN: 15229270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sel.2005.0003     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Linda H. Peterson, "Institutionalizing Women's Autobiography: Nineteenth-Century Editors and the Shaping of an Autobiographical Tradition," in The Culture of Autobiography: Constructions of Self-Representation, ed. Robert Folkenflik (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1993), pp. 80-103, 82
2. Elspeth Graham, "Women's Writing and the Self," in Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700, ed. Helen Wilcox (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996), pp. 209-33, 211
3. See Raymond A. Anselment, "The Deliverances of Alice Thornton: The Re-creation of a Seventeenth-Century Life," Prose Studies 19, 1 (April 1996): 19-36
4. Other less sympathetic discussions of her life are Margaret George, "The Pity of Alice Thornton," in Women in the First Capitalistic Society: Experiences in Seventeenth-Century England (Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1988), pp. 168-79
5. and Mary Beth Rose, "Gender, Genre, and History: Seventeenth-Century English Women and the Art of Autobiography," in Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Literary and Historical Perspectives, ed. Rose (Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1986), pp. 245-78
6. A revised version of Rose's essay is incorporated in her book Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature (Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2002). Selections from the Surtees edition often appear in the growing number of collections that represent British women writers of the early modern period
7. In a note to the statement that women's "spiritual diaries were often transcribed as fair copies by the writers themselves," Elizabeth Clarke observes without further comment, "Alice Thornton writes and rewrites her diary in the thirty years after her husband's death, when it apparently finishes" ("Elizabeth Jekyll's Spiritual Diary: Private Manuscript or Political Document?," in Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J. M. Ezell, English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 9 [London: British Library, 2000], pp. 218-37, 227 and 235n28)
8. John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon the Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, and Psalms (London, 1657), p. 561
9. Edward Leigh, Annotations on Five Poetical Books of the Old Testament (London, 1657), p. 25
10. StephenFord, The Evil Tongue Tryed, and Found Guilty (London, 1672), p. 50
11. J. A. Sharpe, Defamation and Sexual Slander in Early Modern England: The Church Courts at York, Borthwick Papers 58 (Heslington, York: Univ. of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 1980), p. 3
12. See also, for example, Martin Ingram, Church Courts, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1570-1640 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987)
13. and Laura Gowing, Domestic Dangers: Women, Words, and Sex in Early Modern London (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)
14. and "Language, Power, and the Law: Women's Slander Litigation in Early Modern London," in Feminism and Renaissance Studies, ed. Lorna Hutson, Oxford Readings in Feminism (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999), pp. 428-49
15. Richard Allestree observes that "good men have in their estimate ranked their names the next degree to their Souls, preferr'd them before Goods or Life," The Government of the Tongue (Oxford, 1667 [1677]), p. 44. Ford stresses the social harm caused by those who "rob and spoyl good men of their good names, and reputations among men; and thereby break and hinder that friendship and communion that should be, or had been among Neighbours, Friends, and Relations" (p. 100)
16. Arthur Jackson, Annotations upon the Five Books, Immediately Following the Historicall Part of the Old Testament (London, 1658), p. 142
17. Joseph Caryl, An Exposition... upon the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-one Chapters of the Book of Job (London, 1658), p. 312
18. John Downame, Annotations upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (London, 1651), sig. 6L3v
19. Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion, in The Yale Edition of the Shorter Poems of Edmund Spenser, ed. William A. Oram et al. (New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1989), pp. 662-79, line 433