Conduct literature for women, 1500-1640

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Conduct literature for women, 1500-1640

edited by William St. Clair, Irmgard Maassen

Pickering & Chatto, 2000

  • : set
  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • v. 3
  • v. 4
  • v. 5
  • v. 6

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Reprinted from various works published in 1526-1683

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This collection aims to give a chronological insight into the evolution of conduct literature, from its early roots in the Renaissance period through to the dramatically different role that women played at the emergence of the 20th century.

Table of Contents

  • Volume 1 Richard Hyrde Preface to Margaret Roper's translation of Erasmus (1524)
  • Vives, Instruction of a Christen Woman (1541)
  • plus Hyrde, Preface from 1529 edition
  • Vives, Office and Duty of an Husband (1550) Volume 2 Bullinger, Book of Christen Matrimony (1540)
  • plus Becon foreword (1541)
  • Thomas Elyot, Defence of Good Women (1545)
  • Thomas Becon, Catechisme(1565) Volume 3 Philip Stubbes, Christal Glasse for Christian Women (1591)
  • John Dod and Richard Cleaver, Godly Form of Household Governement (1598) Volume 4 Robert Greene, Penelope's Web (1587)
  • Nicholas Breton, In Praise of Vertuous Ladies (1597)
  • Robert Snawsel, Looking Glass for maryed Folkes(1610)
  • Barnabe Rich Ladies' Looking Glass (1616)
  • Barnabe Rich, Excellency of Good Women
  • Patrick Hannay 'A happy Husband' (1618) Volume 5 Thomas Salter, Mirrhor of Modestie (1579)
  • William Gouge Domesticall Duties (1622)
  • William Whateley Bride-Bush (1623) (extracts)
  • Elizabeth Joceline, Mother's Legacy Volume 6 M R, Mother's Counsell, or Live within Compass (1631)
  • Nicholas Caussin, The Holy Court (1631)
  • Richard Braithwait, The English Gentlewoman and other pieces (1631)
  • Humfrey Crouch, 'Kinde Husbande's Advice to his Wife' (1637)

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