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Reading early modern women : an anthology of texts in manuscript and print, 1550-1700 / edited by Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer ; assisted by Melissa Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Women authors.
- English literature.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (473 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This remarkable anthology assembles for the first time 144 primary texts and documents written by women between 1550 and 1700 and reveals an unprecedented view of the intellectual and literary lives of women in early modern England
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; A NOTE ON TRANSCRIPTIONS; INTRODUCTION: REREADING WOMEN'S LITERARY HISTORY; Legal Documents/Women's Testimony; The Status of Women; Mothers' Legacies and Medical Manuals; Religion, Prophecy, and Persecution; Letters; Life-writing: Nonfiction and Fiction; Translations/Alterations; Poetry; Plays; Applied Arts and Music; CONTRIBUTORS' BIOGRAPHIES; INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-88768-3
- 1-135-88769-1
- 0-415-96645-0
- 1-280-05993-1
- 0-203-64392-5
- 9780203643921
- OCLC:
- 456010639
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