"Camden has created a magnificent toolkit for further investigations as well as a stellar example to whet the appetites of the more casual reader of life writing across generations, from grandmother to granddaughter, from circa 1688–9 to nearly a century later. . . .Camden delivers an exciting new case study for teaching and research alike. . . . This volume shines new light on women’s leadership roles in Dissenting communities with a first-person account of a wife of an ejected minister."

Bunyan Studies

“This welcome addition to The Other Voice series is the first-ever edition of the autobiographical papers of Mary Franklin and of her granddaughter, Hannah Burton. These remarkable records, exceptions to the dearth of archival evidence for the lives of early-modern nonconformist women, are of primary importance for women’s history, religious history, literary history, and the history of subjectivity. In her comprehensive introduction, Vera Camden draws out this significance, setting the texts in their historical context and addressing their material nature, composition, genres, analogues, and models. Deft and crisply informative annotation completes a work of first-rate scholarship.”

N.H. Keeble, Professor Emeritus of English Studies, University of Stirling