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The Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington, 1618-1654 - A Selection (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington, 1618-1654 - A Selection (Hardcover, New edition)
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Writings by early-modern English artisans are rare and thus
precious. London wood-turner and puritan, Nehemiah Wallington
(1598-1658) is exceptional for having compiled fifty notebooks
between 1618 and 1654. Although only seven of these are extant,
they not only provide a wealth of valuable information about life
in seventeenth-century London, but more importantly give access to
the author's personal world, both inner and outer. Providing
substantial excerpts from the surviving notebooks, this edition
covers the broad range of subjects that animated Wallington's
everyday life. Accounts of incidents in his domestic, working and
religious life sit side by side with sustained meditations on his
spiritual state; reports on national events are given, along with
their possible providential meanings. Particularly illuminating are
Wallington's reflections on his own mental wellbeing, at times
suicidal, at others ecstatic. From letters on religious matters to
expressions of anxiety over the illnesses and mishaps of his wife
and children, from vexed thoughts about money matters to
chronicling the tumults of civil war London, this collection
provides a window into everyday life in seventeenth-century
England. By making the writings of Nehemiah Wallington available in
a modern edited edition, fully footnoted and referenced, together
with a substantial scholarly introduction, we hope that this
little-known London wood-turner will soon take his deserved place
besides Pepys and Evelyn as one of the authentic voices commenting
on early modern England.
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