Bernadette Andrea: 2 books

The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture

by Bernadette Andrea
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017

Bernadette Andrea’s groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Andrea’s thorough...

Grace Norton [Gethin] and Frances (Freke) Norton

Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 9

by Bernadette Andrea
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

This facsimile edition features the intimately related writings of a mother, Lady Frances Norton (1640-1731), and her daughter, Lady Grace Gethin (1676-97). The posthumous publication of Gethin's collection of essays Misery's Virtues Whet-Stone (1699) was sponsored by her mother; subsequently Norton...