The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions: The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
About the Book Series
Designed to complement The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works, Contemporary Editions presents both modernized and old-spelling editions of texts not only by women but also for and about women. Contents of a volume can range from a single text to an anthology depending on the subject and the audience. Introductions to the editions are written with the general reader as well as the specialist in mind. They are designed to provide an introduction not only to the edited text itself but also to the larger historical discourses expressed through the text.
The Correspondence (c. 1626�1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret P. Hannay, Michael G. Brennan, Noel J. Kinnamon
October 14, 2024
The letters of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester, dating predominantly from about 1636 until 1643, cover a wide range of issues and vividly illustrate her centrality to her illustrious family's personal and public affairs. These c.100 letters are here for the first time fully transcribed ...
Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England: The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert
1st Edition
Edited
By Katharine Hodgkin
October 14, 2024
A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is a rare, detailed autobiographical account of one woman's experience of mental disorder. The writer, Dionys Fitzherbert, recounts the course...
Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies
1st Edition
By Cristina León Alfar, Emily Sherwood
September 26, 2022
The documents contained in Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies tell a story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and the ongoing dispute between Mistress Bourne and her husband about their marriage and separation, and subsequently ...
Lives of Spirit: English Carmelite Self-Writing of the Early Modern Period
1st Edition
By Nicky Hallett
February 28, 2007
Nicky Hallett has uncovered a major new source of material by and about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This volume presents the women's voices in unmediated form, direct in all their vibrancy, with an extensive introduction that ...
Eugenia and Adelaide, A Novel: Frances Sheridan
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Fitzer
June 30, 2021
Frances Sheridan’s Eugenia and Adelaide is an astonishing first novel of parental tyranny, infidelity, kidnap, blackmail, and violence played out over two volumes against the backdrop of continental Europe. The friendship of Eugenia and Adelaide endures in spite of their separation at the beginning...
The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Paterson Glover
June 30, 2020
Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an account of Chapone's life; a discussion of ...
The Collected Works of Jane Cavendish
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexandra G. Bennett
December 12, 2019
The first scholarly edition of the complete works of Jane Cavendish, this volume presents as complete a collection as possible of works and historical documents pertaining to a particularly compelling figure from the English Civil War. These include two manuscript poem and play collections, family ...
The Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London
1st Edition
Edited
By Paula Humfrey
January 03, 2019
The late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts presented here describe female servants' experiences of work in early modern London. Domestics' court depositions offer qualitative evidence that female servants were an important support of emergent capitalism in the early modern metropolis....
Two Early Modern Marriage Sermons: Henry Smith’s A Preparative to Marriage (1591) and William Whately’s A Bride-Bush (1623)
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Matz
September 10, 2018
This critical edition of two early modern marriage sermons provides an important resource for students and scholars of early modern literature and history, allowing them to experience firsthand the competing and historically layered ideas about marriage that circulated in the wake of the English ...
Domestic Politics and Family Absence: The Correspondence (1588–1621) of Robert Sidney, First Earl of Leicester, and Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret P. Hannay, Noel J. Kinnamon
August 23, 2018
Though all but three of Robert Sidney's 332 extant letters to his wife Barbara Gamage Sidney have been in the Sidney family archive, they have never previously been fully transcribed or edited. This edition of the surviving letters, which Sidney wrote to his wife when they were separated for long ...
Mary Astell and John Norris: Letters Concerning the Love of God
1st Edition
By Melvyn New, E. Derek Taylor
August 23, 2018
Given the progress made in recent years in recovering the writings of early modern women, one might expect that a complete set of the important works of Mary Astell (1666-1731) would have been reissued long before now. Instead, only portions of the thought of the 'First English Feminist' have ...
Elizabeth Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan M. Felch
March 28, 2008
In 1574, Christopher Barker published a volume of prayers and poems collected and composed by Elizabeth Tyrwhit, an intimate member of Katherine Parr's circle, governess to the princess Elizabeth, wife of a Tudor court functionary, and a wealthy widow. Later, Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers ...






