How did individuals write about their lives before a modern
tradition of diaries and autobiographies was established? Adam
Smyth examines the kinds of texts that sixteenth or
seventeenth-century individuals produced to register their life, in
the absence of these later, dominant templates. The book explores
how readers responded to, and improvised with, four forms the
almanac, the financial account, the commonplace book and the parish
register to create written records of their lives. Early modern
autobiography took place across these varied forms, often through a
lengthy process of transmission and revision of written documents.
This book brings a dynamic, surprising culture of life-writing to
light for the first time, and will be of interest to anyone
studying autobiography or early modern literature."
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