
Published online:
03 March 2015
Published in print:
12 January 2012
Online ISBN:
9780191803772
Print ISBN:
9780199698233
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Chapter
12 ‘This girl hath a spirit averse from Calvin’: Reading the Life, Hearing the Voice(s)
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255–274
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Published:January 2012
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Patterson, Annabel, '‘This girl hath a spirit averse from Calvin’: Reading the Life, Hearing the Voice(s)', in Kevin Sharpe, and Steven N. Zwicker (eds), Writing Lives: Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England (Oxford , 2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 3 Mar. 2015), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199698233.003.0012, accessed 15 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter analyses a very special case of life writing: the biography of Elizabeth Carey, Lady Falkland (1585–1639). Carey was an aristocratic woman, as well as a scholar and linguist, who converted to Roman Catholicism during the reign of Charles I. Her Life is therefore an instance of Catholic biography, the origins of which can be traced to hagiography. In addition, her Life was written ‘by one of her daughters’, who began writing the biography only when her mother’s adventures were over. The chapter also examines Heather Wolfe’s diplomatic edition of Life, with particular reference to its contextual information.
Keywords:
life writing, biography, Elizabeth Carey, Lady Falkland, Roman Catholicism, hagiography, daughters, Heather Wolfe
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