Anne Halkett, Meditations

Suzanne Trill (University of Edinburgh)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1658

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Religion and Spirituality (any)
- Prayer

Resources

Despite extensive critical discussion of Lady Anne Halkett’s “Memoirs”, to date the majority of her texts have received little or no critical attention. This may in part be because, as one commentator puts it, they were “mainly religious writings, which seem to have been worthy, but little more” (Stevenson, 1996. 202). Thus far marginalised for their content and condemned for their style, Halkett’s extensive collection of “Select” and “Occationall meditations” is only recently acquiring the critical attention it so richly deserves. Margaret J. M. Ezell and Susan Wiseman initiated this shift, and my own recently published edition aims to encourage further work in this area as it makes a selection of the occasional …

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Citation: Trill, Suzanne. "Meditations". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 September 2007 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=20421, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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