In Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille explores Lucy Hutchinson's historical writings and the Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, which, although composed between 1664 and 1667, were first published in 1806. The Memoirs were a best-seller in the nineteenth century, but largely fell into oblivion in the twentieth century. They were rediscovered in the late 1980s by historians and literary scholars interested in women's writing, the emerging culture of republicanism, and dissent. By approaching the Memoirs through the prism of history and form, this book challenges the widely-held assumption that early modern women did not - and could not - write the history of wars, a field that was supposedly gendered as masculine. On the contrary, Gheeraert-Graffeuille shows that Lucy Hutchinson, a reader of ancient history and an outstanding Latinist, was a historian of the English Revolution, to be ranked alongside Richard Baxter, Edmund Ludlow, and Edward Hyde.

About the Author
Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille is a Senior Lecturer in British Studies at the Universite de Rouen Normandie and a member of the research team ERIAC. Her research, at the intersection of literature and history, focuses on gender, historiography, and politics in seventeenth-century England. In 2005 she published her first monograph, La Cuisine et le forum: L'emergence des femmes sur la scene publique pendant la Revolution anglaise, and, with Geraldine Vaughan, she edited Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600-2000: practices, representations and ideas (2020).

Reviews
This is a wonderfully rich study,...We now understand as never before just what is going on in the Memoirs, how the text comes to be as it is, and just how artfully skilful is its author. * N. H. Keeble, University of Stirling, Scotland *
scholarly monograph. * Comptes Rendus *


Awards
Winner of Winner, Societe d'Etude du XVIIe Siecle Award.



Book Information
ISBN 9780192857538
Author Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille
Format Hardback
Page Count 368
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 242mm * 162mm * 28mm