Title Reading early modern women : an anthology of texts in manuscript and print, 1550-1700 / edited by Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer ; assisted by Melissa Smith

Published New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 520 pages) : illustrations Contents Ch. 1. Legal documents/women's testimony -- ch. 2. The status of women -- ch. 3. Mothers' legacies and medical manuals -- ch. 4. Religion, prophecy, and persecution -- ch. 5. Letters -- ch. 6. Life-writing : nonfiction and fiction -- ch. 7. Translations/alterations -- ch. 8. Poetry -- ch. 9. Plays -- ch. 10. Applied arts and music Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject English literature -- Women authors. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature -- Early modern English literature -- Women authors Women and literature Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Ostovich, Helen Sauer, Elizabeth, 1964- Smith, Melissa ISBN 0203643925 9780203643921 9786610059935 6610059934 9780415966450 0415966450 9780415966467 0415966469 9781135887698 1135887691 9781135887643 1135887640 9781135887681 1135887683 1280059931 9781280059933

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