Women's writing of the early modern period 1588-1688 : an anthology
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Women's writing of the early modern period 1588-1688 : an anthology
Columbia University Press, c2002
- cloth
Available at 1 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [468]-476
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This anthology brings together a broad selection of women's writings from the Early Modern period, most of which are unavailable elsewhere. Unlike many anthologies in the field, this one is multigenre, including poetry, literary prose, polemical prose, and drama. Full texts and substantial extracts are included of writings by Elizabeth I, Margaret Cavendish, Anna Trapnel, Aphra Behn, Mary Carleton, Mary Herbert, Jane Anger, Rachel Speght, and others. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized. Augmenting the texts are brief biographies, bibliographies, an index of themes, and a general introduction covering the wider social and religious context in which women wrote and elucidating issues of feminism and feminine authorship.
Table of Contents
IntroductionChronology1588 Elizabeth I, Speech to the Troops at Tilbury1589 Jane Anger, from Her Protection for Women1592 Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, from A Discourse of Life and Death1593 Elizabeth I, Speech at the Dissolving of Parliament1601 Elizabeth I, The Golden Speech1602 Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, "A Dialogue between two shepherds, Thenot and Piers, in Praise of Astraea"1611 Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum1613 Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry1617 Rachel Speght, from A Muzzle for Melastomus1621 Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus1630 Diana Primrose, from A Chain of Pearl1642 Anne Stagg, et al., A True Copy of the Petition of Gentlewomen, and Tradesmen's Wives1648 Elizabeth Poole, A Vision: Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the Kingdom1654 Anna Trapnel, Strange and Wonderful News from Whitehall1663 Mary Carleton, from The Case of Mary Carleton1667 Katherine Philips, from Poems1668 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, The Convent of Pleasure1673 Bathsua Makin, from An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen1678 Anne Bradstreet, from Several Poems1688 Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave1688 Aphra Behn, The Widow Ranter, or The History of Bacon in VirginiaNotesBiographical NotesBibliographyIndex of themes
by "Nielsen BookData"