Reading and Writing Between the Lines: Lady Eleanor Douglas, a Midland Visionary and her Annotated Pamphlets
| Autor: | Vanessa Wilkie |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Midland History. 41:168-183 |
| ISSN: | 1756-381X 0047-729X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0047729x.2016.1226366 |
| Popis: | In the first half of the 17th century, Lady Eleanor Douglas earned notoriety for pouring tar on the Lichfield altar and flooding London with controversial pamphlets. While she published her tracts for a public audience, she saved some of her most scathing comments for a private readership. Just before her 1652 death, Lady Eleanor bound 44 of her pamphlets together and gifted the volume to her daughter, Lucy Hastings, 6th Countess of Huntingdon. While Lady Eleanor was a religious and political pariah, her daughter was the matriarch of the prominent Leicester Hastings family, earls of Huntington, a leading royalist family during the civil war. This volume, now at the Folger Shakespeare Library, contains line-by-line edits and personal commentaries in Lady Eleanor’s hand. By reading the text and annotations alongside Lady Eleanor’s private correspondence to her daughter, these annotations provide a crucial lens that allows us to better perceive the voice of this infamous woman. A close reading of this volume... |
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