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A true account of my life and selected meditations / Anne, Lady Halkett ; edited by Suzanne Trill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Halkett, Anne, Lady, 1622-1699.
- Series:
- The other voice in early modern Europe: the Toronto series
- The other voice in early modern Europe: the Toronto series ; 87
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Halkett, Anne, Lady, 1622-1699.
- Halkett, Anne.
- Great Britain--History--Charles II, 1660-1685--Sources.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--17th century.
- Nobility--Great Britain--Biography.
- Nobility.
- Christian women--Religious life--Scotland.
- Christian women.
- Women--Scotland--History--17th century--Sources.
- Women.
- Women--Scotland--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Meditations.
- Christian women--Religious life.
- Manners and customs.
- Women--Intellectual life.
- Scotland.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Iter Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Born in the early 1620s to parents of Scottish descent who were servants in Charles I's household, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray), grew up on fringes of the English court during a period of increasing political tension. From 1644 to 1699, Halkett recorded her personal and political experiences in both England and Scotland in a series of manuscript meditations and an autobiographical narrative (A True Account of My Life). Royalism, romance, and contemporary religious debates are central to Halkett's vivid portrayal of her life as a single woman, wife, mother, and widow: collectively, the materials edited here offer the opportunity to explore how Halkett's meditational practice informed her life writing in the only version of her writings to date available in a fully modernized edition"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Halkett, Anne, Lady, 1622-1699 True account of my life and selected meditations
- ISBN:
- 9781649590244
- 1649590245
- OCLC:
- 1273049299
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