Life Into Story: Courtship of Elizabeth Wiseman

by Mary Chan

First published in 1998, this collection of letters, presented with scholarly introduction, notes and glosses, enters the debate on women and gender in early modern England as documents for the case of Elizabeth Wiseman, a wealthy widow. The letters and first-person narrative accounts relate to the courtship of Wiseman (ne? North) by Robert Spencer in 1686-87. Widowed at the age of 37 in 1684 on the death of Robert Wiseman, she was left with a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367001578
• ISBN13: 9780367001575
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 9.1"