Anna Trapnel
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Anne Askew
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Early Modern
early modern legal texts
Early Modern Women
Eliza's Babes
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Elizabeth Freke
Eliza’s Babes
English Renaissance literature
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Female Playwrights
gender and authorship
Jane Cavendish
Jane Grey
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Lady Mary Wroth
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Margaret Cavendish
Mary Pix
Mountgomeries Urania
National Library
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus
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Reading Early Modern Women
Ruling Class Affiliation
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Secretary Of State
Silex
Sir Walter Ralegh
Susanna Centlivre
Violating
women's intellectual history
women's life writing
Women's Literary History
Women’s Literary History
Product details
- ISBN 9780415966450
- Weight: 1170g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Much has been written about women of the English Renaissance, but few examples of women's writing from that era have been readily available until now. This remarkable anthology assembles for the first time 144 primary texts and documents written by women between 1550 and 1700 and reveals an unprecedented view of the intellectual and literary lives of women in early modern England. The writings range from poetry to philosophical treatises, addressing a wide array of subjects including law, gender, education, motherhood, medicine, religion, life-writing, and the arts. Each selection is paired with a beautifully reproduced facsimile of the text's original source manuscript, allowing a glimpse into the literary past that will lead the reader to truly appreciate the care and craft with which these women writers prepared their texts. This essential anthology is a captivating guide to the legacy of early modern women's literature and its authors that must not be overlooked.
Helen Ostovich is Professor of English at McMaster University. She is editor of Ben Jonson's Every Man Outof His Humour and Ben Jonson: Four Comedies, and coeditor of Other Voices, Other Views: Expanding the Canon inEnglish Renaissance Studies.
Elizabeth Sauer is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Brock University. She currently holds a Chancellor's Research Chair. She is author of Barbarous Dissonance and Imagesof Voice in Milton's Epics, and coeditor of Imperialisms:Historical and Literary Investigations 1500-1900, Miltonand the Imperial Vision, and Books and Readers in EarlyModern England.
