EAN: 9783039118892

BETWEEN LITERATURE AND HISTORY - BARBARA HUGHES...

This book explores the remarkable diaries and memoirs of Mary Leadbeater (1758-1826) and
Dorothea Herbert (c.1767-1829)  both of whom lived in Ireland. Working on the premise that
their identities are literary constructions  the author investigates the cultural and
existential impulses that motivate their creation. Leadbeater's diaries span fifty-seven years
and include uncensored teenage journals  which are a rarity in Western Europe. Herbert was a
member of the minor gentry and her extraordinary memoir  depicting her descent into madness 
provides a wealth of cultural and historical information. The principal advantage of conducting
a joint study of the writings of both women lies in the manner in which the work of one writer
functions as an implied corrective to the representations of the other. In the present instance
this militates against simplistic assessments of the relationships between gender  class 
ethnicity and narrativity in eighteenth-century Europe.

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