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The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II, Part One

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The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works is designed to make available a comprehensive and focused collection of writings from 1500 to 1750, both by women and for and about them. The three series of Printed Writings(1500-1640, 1641-1700, and 1701-1750) 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 Englishwoman 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 Englishwoman 1500-1750: 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 1641–1700: Series II, Part One 7 Volume Set

Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One: 7 Volume Set

1st Edition

By Betty S. Travitsky, Patrick Cullen
April 28, 2003

Printed Writings 1641-1700, Series II, Part One consists of seven volumes of writings grouped by genre. The set comprises the following titles: Volume 1: Life Writings I Volume 2: Life Writings II Volume 3: Mother's Advice Books Volume 4: Writings on Medicine Volume 5: Educational and Vocational ...

Almanacs Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II,  Part One, Volume 6

Almanacs: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 6

1st Edition

By Alan S. Weber
March 07, 2003

Almanacs were highly influential on popular opinion during the early modern period. They were the least expensive kinds of books and had a practical use as a calendar, literary miscellany, weather guide and advertising medium. The almanacs in this volume contribute to our understanding of women's ...

Mother’s Advice Books Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 3

Mother’s Advice Books: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 3

1st Edition

By Susan C. Staub
March 12, 2002

A form of courtesy literature, Mother's Advice Books were texts written by mothers to instruct their children in religious, educational, and occasionally wordly matters. The three texts included in this volume, Elizabeth Richardson's A Ladies Legacie to her Davghters, Susanna Bell's The Legacy of ...

Writings on Medicine Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 4

Writings on Medicine: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 4

1st Edition

By Lisa Forman Cody
March 12, 2002

The four works in this volume are the only known exclusively medical texts written by women during the Restoration. Their importance is denoted by their dramatic challenge to the generalisations once made about medical practice and female healers in this period. Jane Sharp's The Midwives Book was...

Educational and Vocational Books Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 5

Educational and Vocational Books: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 5

1st Edition

By Frances Teague
June 27, 2001

From the beginning of the seventeenth century, English society started to become preoccupied with education and how people acquired it. It is all the more surprising, then, that there should be relatively few early modern texts by Englishwomen devoted to the question of how one should learn. The ...

Life Writings I Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 1

Life Writings I: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 1

1st Edition

By Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler
May 25, 2001

Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiographers, sharing none of the current preoccupation with individuality and the unique self. The writers represented in this two-volume collection sought connections between particular events in their ...

Life Writings, II Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 2

Life Writings, II: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 2

1st Edition

By Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler
May 25, 2001

Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiographers, sharing none of the current preoccupation with individuality and the unique self. The writers represented in this two-volume collection sought connections between particular events in their ...

Miscellaneous Plays Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 7

Miscellaneous Plays: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 7

1st Edition

By Stephanie Hodgson-Wright
December 29, 2000

The four plays in this volume represent just a small fraction of the total output by early modern women dramatists. Other plays will appear in later volumes in the facsimile series devoted to individual authors. Marcelia (1660), The Perjur'd Husband (1700), She Ventures and He Wins (1695) and The...

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