Elaine Hobby

Standard Name: Hobby, Elaine

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Anthologization Hannah Allen
The full title is Satan his Methods and Malice Baffled. A narrative of God's gracious dealings with that choice Christian Mrs. Hannah Allen, (afterwards married to Mr. Hatt,) reciting the great advantages the devil made...
Education Mary Carleton
It was after she left the convent that MC claimed to have studied English (as a foreign language) and French, and to have acquired more than a smattering of other European languages.
qtd. in
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
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Popular semi-fictional...
Literary responses Mary Carleton
The bigamy scandal generated twenty-six topical publications. It provoked such works as a play by either Thomas Parker or John Holden , 1664. Later MC 's death by hanging made her an ideal subject for...
Literary responses Katharine Evans
The reprintings show the impact that this text had on contemporary Quakers . Anthologists Elspeth Graham , Elaine Hobby , Hilary Hinds , and Helen Wilcox call it as much a text of love as of resistance.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
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politics Anne Wentworth
AW seems to have been supportive of the restored monarchy, at least in regarding it as no more illegitimate than other systems of power. Elaine Hobby notes that although she was without the kind of...
Reception Anne Wentworth
The specialised nature of AW 's texts has not prevented their featuring in the project, dating from the late twentieth century, of recovering early women's voices. Elspeth Graham , Hilary Hinds , Elaine Hobby ...
Reception Aphra Behn
The Aphra Behn Society was founded to forward knowledge and understanding of writing by women from Behn's own period and beyond. It holds a biannual conference, and in 2011 it launched an online journal, Aphra...
Textual Production Hannah Wolley
HW 's Ladies Delight was reprinted without her involvement, much revised, as The Accomplish'd Ladies Delight.
HW 's failure to protest against this plagiarism leads scholar Elaine Hobby to conclude that she was probably...
Violence Anne Wentworth
Elaine Hobby reads this as meaning physical abuse or battering.
Hobby, Elaine. Virtue of Necessity: English Women’s Writing 1646-1688. Virago, 1988.
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Texts

Hobby, Elaine. “’Some Things more Material to be Known’: Reading Some Books for the Recovery Project”. Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Paul Salzman, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp. 12-32.
Hobby, Elaine. “Oh Oxford Thou Art Full of Filth: The Prophetical Writings of Hester Biddle, 1629[?]-1696”. Feminist Criticism: Theory and Practice, edited by Susan Sellers and Susan Sellers, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991, pp. 157-69.
Hobby, Elaine. “A woman’s best setting out is silence: the writings of Hannah Wolley”. Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History, edited by Gerald Maclean, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 179-00.
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
Sharp, Jane. “Introduction”. The Midwives Book, edited by Elaine Hobby, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. xi - xxxi.
Sharp, Jane. The Midwives Book. Editor Hobby, Elaine, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Hobby, Elaine. Virtue of Necessity: English Women’s Writing 1646-1688. Virago, 1988.