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

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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 from1500 to1750, both by women and for and about them The three series of Printed Writings 1500-1640, 1641-1700 , 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 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.

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Judith Man Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 2

Judith Man: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 2

1st Edition

By Amelia A. Zurcher
April 28, 2003

An Epitome of the History of Faire Argenis and Polyarchus is Judith Man's English translation of a 1623 French work by Nicolas Coeffeteau, Histoire de Poliarque et d'Argenis, which is itself an abridgement and translation of one of the most widely read fictional works of the seventeenth century, ...

Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three 5 Volume Set

Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three: 5 Volume Set

1st Edition

By Betty S. Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott
April 28, 2003

Printed Writings 1500-1640, Series I, Part Three consists of five volumes of writings translated by early modern Englishwomen. The set comprises the following titles: Volume 1: Elizabeth Tyrwhit Volume 2: Judith Man Volume 3: Elizabeth Evelinge I Volume 4: Pudentiana Deacon Volume 5: Elizabeth ...

Elizabeth Tyrwhit Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 1

Elizabeth Tyrwhit: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 1

1st Edition

By Patricia Brace
March 27, 2003

Elizabeth Tyrwhit's 1574 Morning and Euening Praiers is a collection of private prayers, a class of book that grew in both popularity and volume with the establishment of Protestantism in England from the mid-century on. These prayers first appeared in a tiny gilt girdle-book alongside the Litany, ...

Elizabeth Evelinge, II Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 5

Elizabeth Evelinge, II: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 5

1st Edition

By Jos Blom
February 06, 2003

The declarations and ordinances made upon the rule of our holy mother S.Clare is an English translation of papal pronouncements upon the rules governing the convents of the Franciscan Order of St Clare. Elizabeth Evelinge's 176-page English version was published by one of the most prolific presses ...

Elizabeth Evelinge, I Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 3

Elizabeth Evelinge, I: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 3

1st Edition

By Frans Korsten
December 23, 2002

The history of the angelicall virgin glorious S.Clare (Douai 1635) is a translation by 'Sister Magdalen' of a work by the Franciscan priest François Hendricq, Vie admirable de madame S. Claire fondatrice des Pauvres Clairesses (1631). In its turn Hendricq's book is largely a translation of parts ...

Pudentiana Deacon Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 4

Pudentiana Deacon: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 4

1st Edition

By Frans Blom
December 23, 2002

Delicious entertainments of the soule is a translation of a collection of conferences which Francis de Sales held for the Order of the Sisters of the Visitation. This order took the form of an institute for young girls and widows who wanted to enter a convent but lacked the strength or the ...

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