ABSTRACT

This article uses documents – recipe book, account book and will – produced by Dorothy Parsons (1640–1670), born in Birr, County Offaly, to argue that she actively utilises the emergent genres of account book and recipe book to produce and maintain her family identity during the disruptive years of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Rather than reading these texts for evidence or content, this article examines textual process and materiality, looking at compilation and copying practices, networks and social context in order to position her writing as implicated in questions of land use, trade, ownership and future territorial claims. The article suggests that life writing needs to be understood in an expansive way with regard to form, and with regard to the representation of identity, and asserts that such texts encode a complex interplay between individual and familial or communal identities.

摘要

本文使用由出生于奥法利郡比尔的多萝西·帕森斯 (Dorothy Parsons，1640-1670 年) 制作的文件——食谱书、账簿和遗嘱，论证她积极利用账簿和食谱书的新兴体裁来制作和维护她的三国战争破坏性年代期间的家庭身份。这篇文章不是为了证据或内容而阅读这些文本，而是检查文本过程和重要性，着眼于编译和复制实践、网络和社会背景，以便将她的写作定位为涉及土地使用、贸易、所有权和未来领土主张的问题. 文章认为，生活写作需要从形式和身份表征的角度进行广泛的理解，