This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a paradoxical period when it was considered unfeminine to write and yet women were the authors of many poems, translations, conduct books, autobiographies, plays, pamphlets and other texts. Leading scholars examine the history of women's role in and access to literary culture, and the work of individual women writers. A unique chronology offers a woman-centered perspective on historical and literary events, and there is a guide to further reading.
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"At last, a comprehensive collection of essays about early modern women that demonstrates the wide range of women's writing and reading practices during the period, from scientific discourse to commercial drama, from books of advice to accounts of prophecy. ...it offers a rich tapestry of critical approaches and textual information." Margaret J. M. Ezell, Journal of English & Germanic Philology
"This book would be extremely useful in undergraduate courses, as the editors include a chronology of events important to women, an extensve bibliography, and a wealth of historical and literary information." Signs
"This book would be extremely useful in undergraduate courses, as the editors include a chronology of events important to women, an extensve bibliography, and a wealth of historical and literary information." Signs
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This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a paradoxical period when it was considered unfeminine to write. Yet women were the authors of many poems, translations, conduct books, autobiographies, plays, pamphlets and other texts.
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Women, or 'woman' to use language more familiar to sixteenth and seventeenth century authors, composed a group that early modern writers felt obliged both to define and to advise. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Women, or 'woman' to use language more familiar to sixteenth and seventeenth century authors, composed a group that early modern writers felt obliged both to define and to advise. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
early modern women, atomist theory, women dramatists, female playwrights, women playwrights, manuscript circulation, courtier poets, feminine behaviour Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mary Sidney, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, English Renaissance, Countess of Pembroke, Aphra Behn, Margaret Cavendish, Cornell University Press, Katherine Philips, Mary Wroth, Salve Deus, Elizabeth Cary, Mothers Blessing, Queen Elizabeth, Dionys Fitzherbert, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas More, Clarendon Press, Mary Astell, Anna Trapnel, Anne Askewe, Betty Travitsky, Duchess of Newcastle, Elaine Hobby New!
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- Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen by Helen Wilcox on 9 pages
- Oppositional Voices: Women as Writers and Translators in the English Renaissance by Tina Krontiris on 5 pages
- Writing Women in Jacobean England by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski on 4 pages
- Virtue of Necessity: English Women's Writing, 1649-88 by Elaine Hobby on 4 pages
- Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing by Kate Chedgzoy on page 99, page 137, and page 231
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- Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Hispanic Issues) by Eukene Lacarra Lanz on page 114, and Index
- Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 by Cristina Malcolmson in Front Matter, and page 98
- The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Valerie Traub in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale by Elizabeth Wanning Harries in Back Matter
- Tudor England: An Encyclopedia (Special -Reference) by Arthur F. Kinney on page 353
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