Wifely ‘Affection and Disposition’
Brilliana Harley and Thomas Gataker’s A Wife in Deed (1623)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8864362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana G Barnes (0000-0003-3923-603X, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 717-732 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2017.1339988 |
| OpenAlex | W2753323463 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
The sermon Thomas Gataker gave at the wedding of Brilliana Conway and Sir Robert Harley in 1623 was published under the title A Wife in Deed (1623). Gataker defines marriage as an affective contract between two agents with responsibilities to one another, and offers practical and generic precepts for conduct. The dedication to Robert Harley honouring Brilliana Harley as a “mirror” of the ideal wife links those ideals, rhetorically at least, to the Harleys. Harley’s extensive extant correspondence (1625–44) allows us to consider the practical day-to-day significance of the sermon’s teachings. The essay reviews letters Harley wrote to her husband in the 1620s, early in the marriage; and in the 1640s, later in the marriage. Throughout she employs a deferential tone. During the 1640s, when civil war raged and her husband was absent, Harley governed the household, sheltered a godly community, and withstood a royalist siege justifying her position in terms of natural law. Gataker’s sermon provides a fresh lens upon the disjunction between the submissive rhetoric of Harley’s marital letters, and the stridency of her defence of Brampton Bryan
Affection · Ancient history · Art · Deed · Glory · Literature · Political science · Sermon · Siege · Theology · Wife · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Scottish History and National Identity · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy
Puritanism and gender
English Funeral Sermons as Sources
Women, Prophecy, and Authority in Early Stuart Puritanism
Gender and the English Revolution
Remaking the Bible
Lady Brilliana Harley’s Letters and Puritan Intellectual Culture
Feminine Piety and Personal Potency
Godly Women in Early Modern England
Women and Politics in Early Tudor England
God's Englishwomen
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |