Abstract
Original language | English (US) |
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Number of pages | 10 |
State | Published - 2016 |
Event | The Idea of a Life, 1500-1700 - Centre for Early Modern Studies, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom Duration: Jun 17 2016 → Jun 17 2016 |
Conference
Conference | The Idea of a Life, 1500-1700 |
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Country | United Kingdom |
City | Oxford |
Period | 6/17/16 → 6/17/16 |
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Keywords
- England
- Seventeenth-century
- Woman writer
- Book history
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“Hor nam is Frances” : A book collector writing her life. / Newcomb, Lori Humphrey.
2016. Paper presented at The Idea of a Life, 1500-1700, Oxford, United Kingdom.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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N2 - The notes Frances Wolfreston left in her almanacs constitute emergent life-writing: they are clearly specific, personal, and written as a record. Their relationship to Wolfreston’s other book inscriptions might bring the latter, too, into the remit of life writing. In the distinct practices of her almanac notes and her book inscriptions, Wolfreston makes use of paratext with a deliberation that suggests that printedness itself may spur readers to write some version of a self, hacking mise-en-page to generate a structure for a life.
AB - The notes Frances Wolfreston left in her almanacs constitute emergent life-writing: they are clearly specific, personal, and written as a record. Their relationship to Wolfreston’s other book inscriptions might bring the latter, too, into the remit of life writing. In the distinct practices of her almanac notes and her book inscriptions, Wolfreston makes use of paratext with a deliberation that suggests that printedness itself may spur readers to write some version of a self, hacking mise-en-page to generate a structure for a life.
KW - England
KW - Seventeenth-century
KW - Woman writer
KW - Book history
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2142/99080
M3 - Paper
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