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Memorializing the Everyday: The Evidence of the Final Decade of Frances Wolfreston’s Life
The Seventeenth Century Pub Date : 2021-08-02 , DOI: 10.1080/0268117x.2021.1942182
Sarah Lindenbaum 1
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ABSTRACT

In 2010, the Oxford bookseller Christopher Edwards discovered a bound volume containing eleven annotated almanacs of the early modern woman reader and book owner Frances Wolfreston (1607–1677). Her annotated almanacs chronicle important events in her life and provide a fuller understanding of her as a person and a book-collector. While informal, they are the only surviving self-writing by this remarkable figure and reveal a careful process of selection and attention to accuracy. Wolfreston almost certainly intended the almanacs to be read by her children after her death and may have even used them as a temporary repository of material for another manuscript she was writing. A member of the minor landed gentry living near the market town of Tamworth for most of her life, she has been characterized as provincial, but her almanacs reveal an active, innovative, and self-sufficient widow who maintained relationships with prominent individuals in her community, helped managed her son’s estate, and lent money to men and women alike. They are a valuable glimpse into the life of a widow and bibliophile in the English Midlands in the 1660s and 1670s.



中文翻译:

纪念日常:弗朗西斯·沃尔夫斯顿生命最后十年的证据

摘要

2010 年,牛津书商克里斯托弗·爱德华兹(Christopher Edwards)发现了一本装订本,其中包含早期现代女性读者和书主弗朗西斯·沃尔弗雷斯顿(Frances Wolfreston,1607-1677 年)的 11 部带注释的年鉴。她带注释的年鉴记录了她生活中的重要事件,并让她更全面地了解她作为一个人和一个藏书家。虽然是非正式的,但它们是这位杰出人物唯一幸存的自写作品,揭示了精心挑选的过程和对准确性的关注。沃尔夫雷斯顿几乎可以肯定地打算在她死后让她的孩子们阅读这些年历,甚至可能将它们用作她正在撰写的另一份手稿的临时资料库。她是一名生活在塔姆沃思集镇附近的小地主绅士,大部分时间都生活在集镇附近,她一直被描述为外省,但她的年鉴显示出一种活跃的、创新和自给自足的寡妇与社区中的知名人士保持关系,帮助管理她儿子的财产,并向男人和女人借钱。它们是对 1660 年代和 1670 年代英国中部地区寡妇和藏书家生活的宝贵一瞥。

更新日期:2021-08-02
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