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During a period when writing was often the only form of self-expression for women, Her Own Life contains extracts from the autobiographical texts of twelve seventeenth-century women addressing a wide range of issues central to their lives.

English literature --- Autobiography --- Women --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Autobiography of women --- Women's autobiography --- Women's writings, English --- Women authors. --- History --- Female authors --- 396 "16" --- 82-94 --- 82-94 Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- 396 "16" Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Women authors --- History&delete& --- Sources

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Advice books published by women were a popular genre in Seventeenth and early Eighteenth-century England and they were moral manuals with strong religious overtones. Here, Urban highlights a notable exception: Age Rectified, which counsels women to acquire a 'disposition of mind' in old age which allows them to be accepted by younger generations.

Conduct of life in literature --- Levenswijze in de literatuur --- Mode de vie dans la littérature --- Moeders in de literatuur --- Mothers in literature --- Mères dans littérature --- 820 "16" --- 396 "16" --- Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- 396 "16" Feminisme. Vrouwenbeweging. Vrouw en maatschappij--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- 820 "16" Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Didactic literature, English --- English prose literature --- Women and literature --- English literature --- History and criticism --- Women authors&delete& --- History --- One of the same sex, --- Age rectified --- Didactic literature [English ] --- Early modern, 1500-1700 --- Women authors --- England --- 17th century --- Clinical psychology. --- Literature. --- Sociology. --- British literature. --- Literature, Modern. --- Clinical Psychology. --- Literature, general. --- Gender Studies. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. --- Brockman, Anne