| Description |
1 online resource (107 pages) |
| Series |
Women writers in English 1350-1850 |
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Women writers in English 1350-1850.
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| Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Textual Introduction; Selected Bibliography; A Mouzell for Melastomus; Certaine Quaeres to the Bayter of Women; Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed; Appendix: A Contemporary Response to Speght's Mouzell: Marginalia in the Yale Copy |
| Summary |
Rachel Speght (1597-?) was the first Englishwoman to identify herself as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This study discusses both her tract, "A Mouzell for Melastomus" (1617) and her volume of poetry, "Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed" (1612) |
| Analysis |
English poetry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Feminism -- England -- History -- 17th century -- Sources.
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Women -- Poetry.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Poetry.
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Sources.
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Poetry.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, 1931-
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| LC no. |
95047244 |
| ISBN |
0195086155 (paper) |
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1423758625 (electronic bk.) |
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1601299540 |
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9780195086157 (paper) |
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9781423758624 (electronic bk.) |
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9781601299543 |
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