Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Epigraph
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: women in a men’s world
• 1 One woman, one story
• A century of hardship and disaster
• The life story of Guðrún Ketilsdóttir in her own words
• Sources
• 2 Early years
• Guðbjörg’s hardscrabble life at Sámsstaðir
• A large family in a time of disease and want
• 3 In service: clever and well behaved
• Food for the mind at Teigur
• Sent away to work
• 4 Employment on her own terms
• Uppity workers
• A single woman in service
• Famine
• 5 When one door closes, another opens
• Assets of the Teigur estate on Ketill’s death
• Guðrún’s pay
• Division of assets among the heirs
• 6 Guðrún at her professional peak
• In the sheriff’s household
• 7 Illugi Jónsson – a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
• Stormy relationship
• Birth of Jón Illugason
• The end of the marriage
• 8 Alone again
• Fugitive single mother and child?
• Jón Illugason, pauper
• Lone, discontented lodger-woman
• A riposte to the sheriff
• Guðrún’s descendants
• 9 We all grow more craven with age
• The end of the road
• 10 Auction of Guðrún’s worldly goods
• “A pauper’s poor possessions”
• Book-loving work maids
• 11 The bigger picture
• Guðrún Ketilsdóttir’s peripatetic life, 1759–1842
• 12 History of the manuscripts
• Women’s writings wrongly catalogued or lost
• A droll tale of Guðrún the prattler
• The comic tale of Gunna, a foul-mouthed, silly, prattling old woman
• Reception
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Bibliography
• Index