| Description |
xxiii, 545 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Bathsua Makin : woman of learning / Frances Teague -- Margaret Lucas Cavendish : a "wise, wittie and learned lady" / Moira Ferguson - Aphra Behn : Tory wit and unconventional woman / Mary Ann O'Donnell -- Leonora Christina : the Danish princess / Sverre Lyngstad -- Queen Christina of Sweden : sovereign between throne and altar / Jeanette Lee Atkinson -- Sibylle Schwarz : prodigy and feminist / Susan L. Clark -- Catharina von Greiffenberg : Protestant Clarion in the Habsburg Empire / Helene M. Kastinger Riley -- Ludamilia Elisabeth : German religious poet / Brigitte Edith Zapp Archibald -- Kata Szidónia Petröczi : lyricist of the soul / Enikö Molnár Basa |
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Introduction / Katharina M. Wilson and Frank J. Warnke -- Marie de Gournay : editor of Montaigne / Maja Bijvoet -- Madame de Sévigné : "epistolière" of the splendid century / Jeanne A. Ojala and William T. Ojala -- Madame de LaFayette : anatomist of the heart / Ronald Bogue -- Madame d'Aulnoy : writer of fantasy / Glenda K. McLeod -- Camilla Faà Gonzaga : the Italian memorialist / Valeria Finucci -- Maria Tesselschade : a woman of more than letters / Ria Vanderauwera -- Anna Maria van Schurman : learned woman of Utrecht / Joyce L. Irwin -- María de Zayas y Sotomayor : writer of the Baroque "novela ejemplar" / Peter Cocozzella -- Ana Caro : Spanish poet and dramatist / Ruth Lundelius -- Mariana de Carvajal : the Spanish storyteller / Noël M. Valis |
| Analysis |
European literatures Women writers - Anthologies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Literature -- Women authors.
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Literature, Modern -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- 17th century.
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| Author |
Warnke, Frank J.
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Wilson, Katharina M.
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| LC no. |
88024994 |
| ISBN |
0820311111 (alk. paper) |
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082031112X (paperback: alk. paper) |
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