Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Rose Hickman
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Standard Name: Hickman, Rose
Birth Name: Rose Locke
Used Form: Rose Lok
Used Form: Rose Lock
Married Name: Rose Throckmorton
RH
was an earnest and committed Protestant during the sixteenth century's religious conflicts. She is remembered for the account she wrote down (in 1610 at the age of eighty-four) of her life. It is personal and also historical, relating her religious beliefs and their doctrinal foundations, and the practical problems they brought for her family's domestic and business life. It is quite possible that she left other writings, but they seem not to have survived.
Higginbotham, Jennifer. “The Exile of Rose Hickman Throckmorton”. Reformation, Vol.
They may have first met during the previous winter.
Morin-Parsons, Kel, and Anne Locke. “Preface, Introduction, Textual Note”. A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner, edited by Kel Morin-Parsons and Kel Morin-Parsons, North Waterloo Academic Press, 1997, pp. 9-40.
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This relationship is known from thirteen surviving letters written by Knox to her (or to her and her sister-in-law Rose Hickman
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Morin-Parsons, Kel, and Anne Locke. “Preface, Introduction, Textual Note”. A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner, edited by Kel Morin-Parsons and Kel Morin-Parsons, North Waterloo Academic Press, 1997, pp. 9-40.
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In November...
Reception
Grace Lady Mildmay
Warnicke
says this text is significant as the earliest autobiography written, as opposed to dictated, by an Englishwoman.
Warnicke, Retha M. “Lady Mildmay’s Journal: A Study in Autobiography and Meditation in Reformation England”. Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 1989, pp. 55-68.
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Though this is at least arguable, its early date does add to its value.
Even if...
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Texts
Hickman, Rose. Certain Old Storyes Recorded by an Aged Gentlewoman to be Perused by her Children and Posterity.