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Elizabeth Freke
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Standard Name: Freke, Elizabeth
Birth Name: Elizabeth Freke
Married Name: Elizabeth Freke
The early-eighteenth-century remembrances of
were edited in 1913 as a diary, but are regarded by their latest editor as a heterogenous group of two commonplace-books and other papers, together making up a life-story dominated by the pattern of the inventory or stock-taking. These texts are a rich mine of material about
's material circumstances and tortured emotional relationships with her husband, son, and others. She began writing out of an autobiographical impulse. She was also, apparently, a poet of unusual skill and forcefulness for an amateur.
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Texts
Freke, Elizabeth. “Introduction”. The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714, edited by Raymond A. Anselment, Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2001, pp. 1-36.
Freke, Elizabeth. Mrs Elizabeth Freke: Her Diary, 1671 to 1714. Editor Carbery, Mary, Guy, 1913.
Freke, Elizabeth. The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714. Editor Anselment, Raymond A., Cambridge University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2001.