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

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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. 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

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Susanna Hopton, I and II Printed Writings, 1641�1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 7

Susanna Hopton, I and II: Printed Writings, 1641�1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 7

1st Edition

Edited By Julia J. Smith
October 31, 2024

Susanna Hopton was born in 1627 to a wealthy mercantile family. By 1651 she was collaborating with her future husband Richard Hopton in his activities as a royalist agent and around the same time she was converted to Roman Catholicism by Henry Turberville, a secular priest and distinguished ...

Eleanor Davies, Writings 1641�1646 Printed Writings, 1641�1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 5

Eleanor Davies, Writings 1641�1646: Printed Writings, 1641�1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 5

1st Edition

Edited By Teresa Feroli
October 14, 2024

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies' life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a "Heavenly voice" told her "There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek Virgin". That same year she published her first treatise, A Warning to the Dragon, initiating her ...

Eleanor Davies, Writings 1647�1652 Printed Writings, 1641�1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 6

Eleanor Davies, Writings 1647�1652: Printed Writings, 1641�1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 6

1st Edition

Edited By Teresa Feroli
October 14, 2024

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies' life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a "Heavenly voice" told her "There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek Virgin". That same year she published her first treatise, A Warning to the Dragon, initiating her ...

Sarah Fyge Egerton Printed Writings, 1641–1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 2

Sarah Fyge Egerton: Printed Writings, 1641–1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 2

1st Edition

By Robert C. Evans
June 07, 2019

Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668-1723) is an intriguing poet who wrote a great deal of poetry during a period when women poets were relatively rare. Her career also began at an astonishingly early age: she was barely fourteen years old when one of her poems was first printed in London. Throughout much of ...

Katherine Chidley Printed Writings, 1641–1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 4

Katherine Chidley: Printed Writings, 1641–1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 4

1st Edition

Edited By Katharine Gillespie
September 25, 2009

Katherine Chidley was a religious and political activist who dissented from the established church throughout the 1620s, 30s and 40s; supported the parliamentarian cause against the royalists during the English civil wars of the 1640s; and sided with the proto-democratic Levellers against the more ...

Gertrude More Printed Writings, 1641–1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 3

Gertrude More: Printed Writings, 1641–1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 3

1st Edition

Edited By Arthur F. Marotti
September 04, 2009

Gertrude More belongs to a tradition of mystical writers who believed in the value of the via negativa, a path to union with God by way of total self-abnegation and the emptying of the mind of set ideas and images. Her only book-length work, THE SPIRITVAL EXERCISES (Paris, 1658), is a collection ...

Jane Barker Printed Writings 1641–1700:  Series II, Part Four, Volume 1

Jane Barker: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 1

1st Edition

By Robert C. Evans
June 17, 2009

Jane Barker (1652-1732) is increasingly being recognised as one of the most important English women writers of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. The author of both poems and novels (including novels containing numerous poems), Barker was largely ignored for many years but has ...

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