Women's Writing in English : Early Modern England.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Studying Early Modern Women Writers -- 2 Women in Early Modern England -- Chiselling the Image, Unwinding the Rhetoric -- Reading Early Modern Women's Writing -- Educating Women -- Praising and Blaming Women -- Wiving and Thriving -- Childbearing -- 3 The Genres of Early Modern Women's Writing -- Translation -- Margaret Beaufort, Margaret Roper, Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Basset -- Jane Lumley, the Cooke sisters, Anne Vaughan Lock, Margaret Tyler, Mary Sidney Herbert -- Theological Debate, Romantic Intrigue, and Classical Tragedy: Elizabeth Cary, Susan DuVerger, Judith Man, Katherine Philips -- Meditations and Testimonials -- Prayers -- Letters and Diaries -- Poetry -- Elizabethan Poets: Isabella Whitney, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Anne Vaughan Lock, Lady Mary Sidney Herbert, Anne Dowriche, Elizabeth Melville -- Esther Inglis and Elizabeth Jane Weston in the Republic of Letters -- Jacobean Polemical Talents: Aemilia Lanyer, Bathsua Reginald, Rachel Speght, Lady Mary Wroth -- Caroline, Protectorate, and Restoration Poets' Complication of Early Modern Selfhood: Diana Primrose, Mary Fage, An Collins, 'Eliza,' Elizabeth Major, Gertrude Thimelby, Anne Bradstreet, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips -- Drama and the Dramatic -- 'Closet' Drama: Translations, Adaptations, Original Creations -- Mothers' Advice Books: Elizabeth Grymeston, Dorothy Leigh, Elizabeth Clinton, Elizabeth Joscelin, Elizabeth Richardson -- Prophecies and Polemics, Petitions and Missionary Accounts: Radical Women and Godly Zeal -- 4 Six Major Authors -- Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) -- Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) -- Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, Viscountess Falkland (1585-1639) -- Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1653) -- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673).

Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda (1632-1664) -- Postscript -- Appendix A: Women and the Rise of Print Culture -- Appendix B: Chronologies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This wide-ranging examination of the genres of early modern women's writing embraces translation in the fields of theological discourse, romance and classical tragedy, original meditations and prayers, letters and diaries, poetry, closet drama, advice manuals, and prophecies and polemics.

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