Early modern women's writing : an anthology, 1560-1700 /

Early modern women's writing : an anthology, 1560-1700 /

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Imprint:Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Description:1 online resource (xl, 442 pages).
Language:English
Series:Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subject:
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
English literature -- Women authors.
Women -- Literary collections.
English literature -- Early modern.
English literature -- Women authors.
Women.
Literary collections.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11114600
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Other authors / contributors:Salzman, Paul.
ISBN:9780191563669
0191563668
0585369844
9780585369846
0192833464
9780192833464
9780199549672
0199549672
9780585369844
0191605425
9780191605420
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiii-xxxviii).
English.
Print version record.
Summary:In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have been destined for a career as illustrious as that of her brother William, except that she had none of his chances. The truth is that many women wrote during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and this collection will serve to introduce modern readers to the full variety of women's writing in this period - from poems, prose and fiction to prophecies, letters, tracts and philosophy. Here are.
Other form:Print version: Early modern women's writing. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 0192833464
Table of Contents:
  • Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567-1578). I.W. to her unconstant lover ; The admonition ; Will and testament
  • Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645). From Salve deus rex judaeorum ; The description of Cookham
  • Anne Clifford (1590-1676). From her Diary (Jan. 1616-Jan. 1617)
  • Mary Wroth (c.1587-c.1653). Love's victory ; From "Pamphilia to Amphilanthus" : Sonnet 22, Sonnet 23, Sonnet 34, Sonnet 35, Sonnet 48 ; "Song" from Urania
  • Eleanor Davies (1590-1652). The benediction ; Revelations : the everlasting gospel
  • Priscilla Cotton and Mary Cole (fl. 1650s/1660s). To the priests and the people of England
  • Hester Biddle (c.1629-1696). The trumpet of the Lord sounded forth
  • Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673). A world made by atoms ; Of the ant ; The hunting of the hare ; Bell in campo ; Preface to Observations upon experimental philosophy ; The matrimonial agreement ; Of a civil war
  • Dorothy Osborne (1627-1695). Letters (a selection)
  • Katherine Phillips (1632-1664). Epitaph : on Hector Philips ; On the death of my first and dearest child ; To Mrs Mary Awbrey at parting ; A retired friendship : to Ardelia ; To my excellent Lucasia on our friendship ; Friendship's mysteries : to my dearest Lucasia ; Content : to my dearest Lucasia ; Orinda to Lucasia, Parting, October 1661, at London ; Orinda to Lucasia
  • Aphra Behn (c.1640-1689). The city-heiress : or, Sir Timothy Treat-all ; Song : love armed ; The disappointment ; On desire ; To Alexis in answer to his poem against fruition ; To the fair Clarinda, who made love to me, imagined more than woman ; To Alexis, on his saying I loved a man that talked much ; To Lysander on some verses he writ ; The wandering beauty, a novel.

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