TY - BOOK ID - 136242262 TI - The daughters of the first Earl of Cork : writing family, faith, politics and place PY - 2020 SN - 9781846827983 1846827981 PB - Dublin Four Courts Press DB - UniCat KW - Upper class women KW - Upper class women KW - Correspondence KW - History KW - Boyle family KW - Cork, Richard Boyle, KW - Correspondence. KW - Family. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136242262 AB - Based on the recovery and analysis of the letters and private papers of the wife, daughters, daughters-in-law, and granddaughters of Richard Boyle (1566?1643), first earl of Cork, this book examines how these women perceived and wrote their lives as individuals and as members of their famous family. The book explores the theme of identity through close readings of the extant texts from a number of perspectives: the figuration of Ireland; gender; the impact of civil war rupture; Protestantism; and legacy-making. This original showcasing of the Boyle women?s largely forgotten female-voiced texts further illuminates how these women used the occasion of family writing and record-keeping to develop self-presentation strategies that allowed them to situate their lives at the centre of the transformations that were taking place in early modern Ireland and Britain. ER -