Julie A. Eckerle is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota Morris. She is the author of Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen’s Life Writing. Naomi McAreavey is a lecturer in Renaissance literature at University College Dublin. She is the coeditor of The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture.

"This volume will serve as a landmark contribution to both Irish studies and early modern women's literary history, offering not only essays on new authors and texts but also pointing the way forward for future work on this country's complex national identity and literary history."—Margaret J. M. Ezell, Distinguished Professor of English and the Sara and John Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University “This is an outstanding contribution to women’s writing in Ireland-an impeccable, original, and genuinely transformative work of scholarship. It is an extraordinarily rich and insightful volume. The volume has multiple virtues: a capacious sense of what constitutes life-writing, the concentration on a particular national-regional configuration, the use of Ireland as experience and point of reference, and the concentration of Ireland as a site and a stimulus. This is a work, then, considerably larger than the sum of its parts.”-Ramona Wray, reader in Renaissance literature in the School of English at Queen’s University Belfast

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland - Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreavey1. Alice Thornton, Elizabeth Freke, and the Remembrances of Ireland - Raymond A. Anselment2. ""Like fishes out of the water"": Reading Dislocation and Emotion in the Writings of Alice Thornton, Ann Fanshawe, and Barbara Blaugdone - Anne Fogarty3. The Boyle Women: A Paradigm of Familial Life Writing - Ann-Maria Walsh4. Life Writing in the Boyle Family Network - Amelia Zurcher5. The Politics of Honor in Lady Ranelagh's Ireland - Ruth Connolly6. The Place of Ireland in the Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde - Naomi McAreavey7. ""the only suports of my spirits"": English-Irish Social Networks in the Seventeenth Century - Amanda E. Herbert8. ""all the beggers of Ireland"": Women's Letters in The Lyons Collection of the Correspondence of William King - Julie A. Eckerle9. ""We came into that ugely playce Ierland upon may ye 23 1677"": Ownership Inscriptions and Life Writing in the Books of Early Modern Women - Jason McElligottNote on Sources: Archives, Female Life Writers, and Early Modern Ireland - Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreaveyBibliographyContributors

Julie A. Eckerle is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota Morris. She is the author of Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen’s Life Writing. Naomi McAreavey is a lecturer in Renaissance literature at University College Dublin. She is the coeditor of The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture.

"This volume will serve as a landmark contribution to both Irish studies and early modern women's literary history, offering not only essays on new authors and texts but also pointing the way forward for future work on this country's complex national identity and literary history."—Margaret J. M. Ezell, Distinguished Professor of English and the Sara and John Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University “This is an outstanding contribution to women’s writing in Ireland-an impeccable, original, and genuinely transformative work of scholarship. It is an extraordinarily rich and insightful volume. The volume has multiple virtues: a capacious sense of what constitutes life-writing, the concentration on a particular national-regional configuration, the use of Ireland as experience and point of reference, and the concentration of Ireland as a site and a stimulus. This is a work, then, considerably larger than the sum of its parts.”-Ramona Wray, reader in Renaissance literature in the School of English at Queen’s University Belfast

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland - Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreavey1. Alice Thornton, Elizabeth Freke, and the Remembrances of Ireland - Raymond A. Anselment2. ""Like fishes out of the water"": Reading Dislocation and Emotion in the Writings of Alice Thornton, Ann Fanshawe, and Barbara Blaugdone - Anne Fogarty3. The Boyle Women: A Paradigm of Familial Life Writing - Ann-Maria Walsh4. Life Writing in the Boyle Family Network - Amelia Zurcher5. The Politics of Honor in Lady Ranelagh's Ireland - Ruth Connolly6. The Place of Ireland in the Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde - Naomi McAreavey7. ""the only suports of my spirits"": English-Irish Social Networks in the Seventeenth Century - Amanda E. Herbert8. ""all the beggers of Ireland"": Women's Letters in The Lyons Collection of the Correspondence of William King - Julie A. Eckerle9. ""We came into that ugely playce Ierland upon may ye 23 1677"": Ownership Inscriptions and Life Writing in the Books of Early Modern Women - Jason McElligottNote on Sources: Archives, Female Life Writers, and Early Modern Ireland - Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreaveyBibliographyContributors

Julie A. Eckerle is a professor of English at the University of Minnesota Morris. She is the author of Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen’s Life Writing. Naomi McAreavey is a lecturer in Renaissance literature at University College Dublin. She is the coeditor of The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture.

"This volume will serve as a landmark contribution to both Irish studies and early modern women's literary history, offering not only essays on new authors and texts but also pointing the way forward for future work on this country's complex national identity and literary history."—Margaret J. M. Ezell, Distinguished Professor of English and the Sara and John Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University “This is an outstanding contribution to women’s writing in Ireland-an impeccable, original, and genuinely transformative work of scholarship. It is an extraordinarily rich and insightful volume. The volume has multiple virtues: a capacious sense of what constitutes life-writing, the concentration on a particular national-regional configuration, the use of Ireland as experience and point of reference, and the concentration of Ireland as a site and a stimulus. This is a work, then, considerably larger than the sum of its parts.”-Ramona Wray, reader in Renaissance literature in the School of English at Queen’s University Belfast

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland - Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreavey1. Alice Thornton, Elizabeth Freke, and the Remembrances of Ireland - Raymond A. Anselment2. ""Like fishes out of the water"": Reading Dislocation and Emotion in the Writings of Alice Thornton, Ann Fanshawe, and Barbara Blaugdone - Anne Fogarty3. The Boyle Women: A Paradigm of Familial Life Writing - Ann-Maria Walsh4. Life Writing in the Boyle Family Network - Amelia Zurcher5. The Politics of Honor in Lady Ranelagh's Ireland - Ruth Connolly6. The Place of Ireland in the Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde - Naomi McAreavey7. ""the only suports of my spirits"": English-Irish Social Networks in the Seventeenth Century - Amanda E. Herbert8. ""all the beggers of Ireland"": Women's Letters in The Lyons Collection of the Correspondence of William King - Julie A. Eckerle9. ""We came into that ugely playce Ierland upon may ye 23 1677"": Ownership Inscriptions and Life Writing in the Books of Early Modern Women - Jason McElligottNote on Sources: Archives, Female Life Writers, and Early Modern Ireland - Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreaveyBibliographyContributors