Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreavey

1. Alice Thornton, Elizabeth Freke, and the Remembrances of Ireland

Raymond A. Anselment

2. Reading Dislocation and Emotion in the Writings of Alice Thornton, Ann Fanshawe, and Barbara Blaugdone

Anne Fogarty

3. The Boyle Women and Familial Life Writing

Ann-Maria Walsh

4. Life Writing in the Boyle Family Network

Amelia Zurcher

5. The Politics of Honor in Lady Ranelagh’s Ireland

Ruth Connolly

6. The Place of Ireland in the Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde

Naomi McAreavey

7. English-Irish Social Networks in the Seventeenth Century

Amanda E. Herbert

8. Women’s Letters in the Lyons Collection of the Correspondence of William King

Julie A. Eckerle

9. Ownership Inscriptions and Life Writing in the Books of Early Modern Women

Jason McElligott

Appendix: Archives and Female Life Writers of Early Modern Ireland

Bibliography

Contributors

Index