The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II, Part Two
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 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 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 woman 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions which includes both old-spelling and modernized editions of works by and about women and gender in early modern England.
Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II Part Two: 9 Volume Set
1st Edition
By Betty S. Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott
November 28, 2003
The three series of Printed Writings (1500-1640, 1641-1700, and 1701-1750) provide a comprehensive, if not entirely complete, collection of separately published writings by women. In reprinting these writings it is intended to remedy one of the major obstacles to the advancement of feminist ...
An Collins: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 1
1st Edition
By Robert C. Evans
November 13, 2003
An Collins' Divine Songs and Meditacions were first printed in a small octavo volume in London in 1653. The only extant copy is presently held at The Huntington Library and it is, therefore, this copy that is reproduced in this facsimile edition. It is an important text because it is one of the ...
Alicia D'Anvers: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 2
1st Edition
By Robert C. Evans
November 04, 2003
Born Alice Clarke, the daughter of Oxford university's 'first director of printing', Alicia D'Anvers' poetry demonstrates an intimate familiarity with Oxford and especially with the workings of the press. This volume reproduces three works: A Poem Upon His Sacred Majesty, His Voyage for Holland (...
Elizabeth Singer [Rowe]: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 7
1st Edition
By Jennifer Richards
September 24, 2003
Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part Two, consists of seven volumes of writings as follows: Volume 1: An Collins Volume 2: Alicia D'Anvers Volume 3: 'Eliza' Volume 4: Amey Hayward Volume 5: Anne Killigrew Volume 6: Elizabeth Major Volume 7: Elizabeth Singer [Rowe]...
Grace Norton [Gethin] and Frances (Freke) Norton: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 9
1st Edition
By Bernadette Andrea
August 22, 2003
This facsimile edition features the intimately related writings of a mother, Lady Frances Norton (1640-1731), and her daughter, Lady Grace Gethin (1676-97). The posthumous publication of Gethin's collection of essays Misery's Virtues Whet-Stone (1699) was sponsored by her mother; subsequently ...
Elizabeth Major: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 6
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Powers-Beck
August 15, 2003
Elizabeth Major was inspired to write Honey on the Rod (1656) as a result of lameness brought on by a bout of fever in her mid-twenties. The experience left her fiercely devoted to her Christian religion, but also filled with indignation against the sins of nominal Christians. Honey on the Rod was ...
Amey Hayward: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 4
1st Edition
By Dana Aspinall
July 28, 2003
The Females Legacy is the only surviving work of Amey Howard about whom very little is known. While rarely political or even topical, The Females Legacy generally conforms to much of the same militantly Protestant ideology of the sort Harris spent his life advocating. The volume contains ...
Anne Killigrew: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 5
1st Edition
By Patricia Hoffmann
July 24, 2003
During Anne Killigrew's lifetime (1660-1685) most of her known living relatives were connected to the court, yet very little is known about Anne herself. The twenty-five complete poems and five fragments that were collected and published by her father soon after her death probably represent only a ...
'Eliza': Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 3
1st Edition
By Liam Semler
July 10, 2003
This facsimile edition reproduces the work titled Eliza's Babes which was first published in 1652. The volume comprises devotional and political verse and prose meditations. The poems cover a wide range of forms from verse epistles to poetic petitions, religious love lyrics to poems on earthly ...
'Ephelia': Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 8
1st Edition
By Maureen E. Mulvihill
April 28, 2003
This facsimile edition reproduces the extant works of the seventeenth-century poet, 'Ephelia'. By tradition, the identity of 'Ephelia' has been a long-contested debate in English letters. In her extended Introductory Note, Maureen Mulvihill culls evidence from the 'Ephelia' texts and from ...






