Cooper Fellow Lecture Series - Dr. Pamela Hammons, Professor of English
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 3:30pm
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Cooper Fellow Lecture Series - Dr. Pamela Hammons, Professor of English
Wednesday, April 27, 2024 at 3:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Tittle: Decoding a Renaissance Mother’s Manuscript, 1650-1658
Lady Mary Carey examined her life and expressed her views in a hand-written manuscript created for self-reflection and restricted audiences of family and friends, rather than for print publication. Her poetry and prose, composed and revised between 1650 and 1658, were important enough to her inner circle that her autograph manuscript was copied in a fair hand in 1681. In addition to providing us with key insights into women’s multi-dimensional roles as wives, widows, and mothers during the seventeenth century in England, Carey teaches us a great deal about a woman’s deepest emotional and spiritual states while confronting the hardships of life—from the fears of childbearing to the sorrows over child loss to the terrors of war.
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