Women's Life Writing and Early Modern IrelandWomens Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth century womens life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from Englandeven though many of these writers would have identified themselves as Englishand making Ireland and Irishness the focus of their essays, the contributors resituate womens narratives in a