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The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two

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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. 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.

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Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two 13 Volume Set

Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two: 13 Volume Set

1st Edition

By Betty S. Travitsky, Patrick Cullen
February 28, 2002

Printed Writings 1500-1640, Series I, Part Two consists of thirteen volumes of writings by and about early modern Englishwomen. The set comprises the following titles: Volume 1: Anne Cooke Bacon Volume 2: Brief Confessional Writings: Grey, Stubbes, Livingstone, Clarksone Volume 3: Eleanor Davies ...

The Poets, Isabella Whitney, Anne Dowriche, Elizabeth Melville [Colville], Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Diane Primrose and Anne, Mary and Penelope Grey Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 10

The Poets, Isabella Whitney, Anne Dowriche, Elizabeth Melville [Colville], Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Diane Primrose and Anne, Mary and Penelope Grey: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 10

1st Edition

By Betty S. Travitsky, Susanne Woods
January 11, 2002

Isabella Whitney is the earliest Englishwoman known to have written original secular poetry in English for publication. The Copy of a Letter contains four poems written in the personae of persons jilted in love. The only known copy of this volume is held at the Bodleian Library and is reproduced ...

Elizabeth and Mary Tudor Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 5

Elizabeth and Mary Tudor: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 5

1st Edition

By Anne Lake Prescott
December 21, 2001

The two translators whose printed works are contained in this volume were the daughters of Henry VIII. Whilst they both suffered from their father's changes of wives and faiths, after his marriage in 1543 to Katherine Parr they both benefited from their new stepmother's kindness. In different ways,...

Mother’s Advice Books Printed Writings 1500–1640:  Series I, Part Two, Volume 8

Mother’s Advice Books: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 8

1st Edition

Edited By Betty S. Travitsky
October 24, 2001

Early modern works of advice can be typified by a number of texts by Erasmus falling into a variety of categories: advice on family conduct; manners; study plans and piety. A close relation to these works of advice was the parental advice book, usually written by a father to his son. It was not ...

Brief Confessional Writings: Grey, Stubbes, Livingstone, Clarksone Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 2

Brief Confessional Writings: Grey, Stubbes, Livingstone, Clarksone: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 2

1st Edition

By Mary Ellen Lamb
October 23, 2001

The works by the four protestant women authors collected in this volume participate in the ars moriandi (art of dying) tradition which became increasingly powerful over the 16th and 17th centuries. The moment of death was thought to reveal the ’true’ state of the individual’s soul. This volume ...

Early Tudor Translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More Roper and Mary Basset Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 4

Early Tudor Translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More Roper and Mary Basset: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 4

1st Edition

By Lee Cullen Khanna
August 28, 2001

This volume presents the texts of three Englishwomen remarkable both for writing and publishing their work during the first half of the sixteenth century. They also proved themselves nimble survivors of political and religious turmoil, Beaufort suffering for her Lancastrian connections and Roper ...

Protestant Translators: Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 12

Protestant Translators: Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 12

1st Edition

By Elaine V. Beilin
July 05, 2001

As writers strongly committed to the Reformation, Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell translated works which they believed were doctrinally useful for their Protestant readers. Lock translated Calvin’s four sermons from French, dedicating the work to Katharine, Duchess of Suffolk. These were ...

Anne, Margaret and Jane Seymour Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 6

Anne, Margaret and Jane Seymour: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 6

1st Edition

By Brenda Hosington
August 14, 2000

Despite the fame their work brought them, and despite the importance of their parents in mid-Tudor England, relatively little is known of the lives of Anne, Margaret and Jane Seymour - daughters of Anne Stanhope and the Duke of Somerset. In 1550, aged roughly eighteen, sixteen and nine, these three...

Recusant translators: Elizabeth Cary and Alexia Grey Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 13

Recusant translators: Elizabeth Cary and Alexia Grey: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 13

1st Edition

By Frances E. Dolan
July 21, 2000

At a time when England was an officially Protestant country to translate Catholic works, thereby helping to propagate the faith, was a brave act and to actually identify oneself in print, as did Cary, as ’a Catholique, and a woman’ was a risky assertion of political opposition. One of Cary’s ...

Anne Cooke Bacon Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 1

Anne Cooke Bacon: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 1

1st Edition

By Valerie Wayne
July 19, 2000

Anne Cooke Bacon was highly educated and was known for her ability to read Latin, Greek, Italian and French. She married Sir Nicholas Bacon, Queen’s Keeper of the Great Seal and a member of Elizabeth’s Privy Council. The directions of the new Church of England were heavily influenced by her husband...

Eleanor Davies Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 3

Eleanor Davies: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 3

1st Edition

By Teresa Feroli
July 19, 2000

Little is known of the upbringing of Lady Eleanor Davies, what is known is that her life was mired in both flamboyant personal conflict and in the notoriety of the Castlehaven scandal (resulting in the execution of her brother), and that her writings were embroiled in political affairs. Married in...

Neo-Latin Women Writers: Elizabeth Jane Weston and Bathsua Reginald (Makin) Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 7

Neo-Latin Women Writers: Elizabeth Jane Weston and Bathsua Reginald (Makin): Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 7

1st Edition

By Donald Cheney
July 19, 2000

This volume contains the work of the only two Renaissance Englishwomen known to have published collections (as opposed to compilations) of their Latin poetry. Elizabeth Jane Weston lived in Prague as a child, her stepfather being alchemist to Rudolph II. Her stepfather's disgrace, imprisonment and...

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