The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I, Part One
About the Book Series
The Early Modern English woman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works is designed to make available a comprehensive and focused collection of writings from1500to1750, both by women and for and about them. The three series of Printed Writings (1500-1640, 1641-1700, and1701-1750) provide a comprehensive, if not entirely complete, collection of the separately published writings by women, and aim to support the advancement of feminist criticism of the early modern period. The volumes in the facsimile library reproduce carefully chosen copies of these texts, incorporating a short introduction providing an overview of the life and work of a writer along with a survey of important scholarship. The Early Modern English woman also includes separate facsimile series of Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women and of Manuscript Writings. These facsimile series are complemented by The Early Modern English woman1500-1750: Contemporary Editions which includes both old-spelling and modernized editions of works by and about women and gender in early modern England
Works by and attributed to Elizabeth Cary: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 2
1st Edition
By Margaret W. Ferguson
September 27, 2018
Elizabeth Cary (c.1585-1639) was an accomplished scholar of languages and theology. Her considerable strength of character was demonstrated by her public conversion to Catholicism in 1625 thereby creating an irrevocable rift in her marriage and her family. Her biography, written by her daughter, ...
Printed Writings, 1500–1640: Series I, Part One: 10 Volume Set
1st Edition
By Betty S. Travitsky, Patrick Cullen
July 28, 1996
Printed Writings 1500-1640, Series I, Part One consists of ten volumes of writings by and about early modern Englishwomen. The set comprises the following titles: Volume 1: Anne Askew Volume 2: Literary Works by and attributed to Elizabeth Cary Volume 3: Katherine Parr Volume 4: Defences of Women:...
Alice Sutcliffe: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 7
1st Edition
By Patrick Cullen
July 25, 1996
Alice Sutcliffe was married in 1624 (her birth and death dates are not known, nor her exact marriage date) to John Sutcliffe who was Esquire to the Body of James I. He later became Groom of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Chamber at the Court of Charles I and it is suggested by some of her ...
Anne Askew: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 1
1st Edition
By John N. King
July 25, 1996
Anne Askew (1521-1546) was accused of heresy because of her denial of the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and ritual of mass. These two works provide an extremely rare autobiographical account of heresy interrogations, torture, trial and conviction. Her manuscripts were smuggled out of ...
Anne Wheathill: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 9
1st Edition
By Patrick Cullen
July 25, 1996
The only reliable clues available about Anne Wheathill’s life are those contained in her work, published in 1584. She describes herself as a gentlewoman, unmarried and a Protestant. She also refers to herself as poor and it has been suggested that she was one of a handful of women in Elizabeth I’...
Defences of Women: Jane Anger, Rachel Speght, Ester Sowernam and Constantia Munda,: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 4
1st Edition
By Susan Gushee O'Malley
July 25, 1996
Jane Anger her Protection for Women A Mouzell for Melastomus Ester hath hang’d Haman The Worming of a mad Dogge Of the many tracts in defence of women published in early modern England only these four bear women’s names. All four were written in response to misogynist attacks. Of these writers, ...
Katherine Parr: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 3
1st Edition
By Janel Mueller
July 25, 1996
The sixth and last queen of Henry VIII, and friend of Anne Askew, Katherine Parr (c.1513-1548) has a threefold claim to recognition for her contribution to the literary culture of her time. First, as a loving and adept stepmother to the royal children, who took a directive role in their education;...
Margaret Tyler: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 8
1st Edition
By Kathryn Coad
July 25, 1996
The biography of Margaret Tyler remains speculative. It is known that she served the Howard family (Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk) in some capacity. Her level of education has been described as ’amazing’ for a woman who was outside of the aristocracy and possibly a middle-class servant. Her ...
Mary Sidney Herbert: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 6
1st Edition
By Gary F. Waller
July 25, 1996
Mary Sidney (1562-1620), Countess of Pembroke, was born into one of England’s most prominent literary and political families. She was fluent in at least three languages and was an accomplished translator and poet. Her two translations from the French, A Discourse of Life and Death, by Philippe de...
Mary Wroth: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 10
1st Edition
By Josephine A. Roberts
July 25, 1996
Mary Wroth (1587-1653?) was niece and god-daughter of Mary Sidney Herbert. She was married in 1604 to Sir Robert Wroth with whom she joined the Court circle of James I. In 1618 she began work on her enormous prose romance The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania. The first known work of original ...
Susanne DuVerger: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 5
1st Edition
By Jane Collins
July 25, 1996
The one work traditionally attributed to Susan DuVerger is her Admirable Events (1639) - a translation of a collection of novellas by Jean Pierre Camus, a French Catholic Bishop - which she dedicated to Queen Henrietta Maria. There is some evidence however to suggest that she was the author of ...






