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Table des matières
Contents: General editors' preface; Introduction; A glossary of evangelical piety; A brief glossary of Scotticisms and archaisms; The Narratives: Katherine Collace, Mistress Ross, Memoirs or Spiritual Exercises of Mistress Ross. Written with her own hand; Jean Collace, 'Some short remembrances of the Lord's kindness to me and his work on my soul, for my own use'; Lilias Dunbar, Mrs Campbell, 'Experiences of the goodness of God, in his word and providence to me, who am the ill and unthankful'; Helen Alexander, Mrs Currie, Passages in the Life of Helen Alexander; Henrietta Lindsay: Her diary; Agnes Paton: 'The way of God with my soul'; Katherine Hamilton, 'Memoirs of her grace, Katherine, duchess of Atholl, in form of a diary; Elizabeth Blackadder, Mrs Young: 'A short account of the Lord's way of providence towards me in my pilgrimage journeys'; Bibliography; Index.
Résumé
This title was first published in 2003.This edition presents writings by early modern Scottish women about women-namely themselves. From about 1660, Scottish women began to express themselves, sometimes extensively, in religious prose. Here the author showcases selections of these women's writings from c.1670 until c. 1725, by which time the remarkable self-writing impetus provided by the later covenanting experience began to abate. Much of the material is in the form of journals, some narrowly focused on the inner self, some rather more aware of the external world, some from aristocratic women and some from women in lower social stations. There are also a couple of autobiographies, and within several of the documents will be found women's personal covenants with God. Mullan includes an introductory essay, as well as glossaries to define the evangelical usage of important terms and Scotticisms, introductory comments for each individual document, and annotations to identify obscure words, individuals named in the texts, biblical references, and other points of interest.
