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Historical Women's Writing

About the Book Series

This series explores a wide range of women’s writing from across the world, spanning several centuries up to the First World War. Each volume consists of a collection of essays focusing on a specific theme, time-period, genre, or author, ranging from the canonical to lesser-known and neglected writers. These books will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of literature and history, as well as for more general readers with an interest in historical women writers and their work.

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Women Writing Men 1689 to 1869

Women Writing Men: 1689 to 1869

1st Edition

Edited By Joanne Ella Parsons, Ruth Heholt
January 29, 2024

This book explores how women writers create and question men and masculinity. As men have written women so have women written men. Debate about how men have represented women in literature has a long and distinguished history; however, there has been much less examination of the ways in which women...

Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts

Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts

1st Edition

Edited By Marie-Louise Coolahan, Gillian Wright
May 07, 2020

Katherine Philips (1632–1664) is widely regarded as a pioneering figure within English-language women’s literary history. Best known as a poet, she was also a skilled translator, letter writer and literary critic whose subjects ranged from friendship and retirement to politics and public life. Her ...

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