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In order to challenge the widely-held assumption that Early Modern women could not write the history of wars, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille reads Lucy Hutchinson's
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson as a comprehensive history of the English Revolution.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Life-writing and exemplarity
- 2: The Memoirs and historiography
- 3: The experience of the Civil War in Nottingham
- 4: Writing oneself into history: the paradoxes of Lucy Hutchinson's agency
- 5: The historian's craft (1): Lucy Hutchinson's art of narration
- 6: The historian's craft (2): Lucy Hutchinson's art of digression
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
About the author
Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille is a Senior Lecturer in British Studies at the Université de Rouen Normandie and a member of the research team ERIAC. Her research, at the intersection of literature and history, focuses on gender, historiography, and politics in seventeenth-century England. In 2005 she published her first monograph, La Cuisine et le forum: L'émergence des femmes sur la scène publique pendant la Révolution anglaise, and, with Géraldine Vaughan, she edited Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600-2000: practices, representations and ideas (2020).
Summary
In order to challenge the widely-held assumption that Early Modern women could not write the history of wars, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille reads Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson as a comprehensive history of the English Revolution.
Additional text
This book is not only a meticulous and detailed analysis of Hutchinson's Memoir, but it provides a complex, revisionary account of seventeenth-century historiography, and of Hutchinson's place within a tradition that in the past has been dominated by male writers.
