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The polemics and poems of Rachel Speght / edited by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Speght, Rachel, author.
- Series:
- Women writers in English, 1350-1850.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Women writers in English, 1350-1850
- Oxford scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Poetry.
- Women.
- Feminism--England--History--17th century--Sources.
- Feminism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (144 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rachel Speght (1597-?) was the first Englishwoman to identify herself as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This study discusses both her tract, "A Mouzell for Melastomus" (1617) and her volume of poetry, "Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed" (1612).
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Textual Introduction; Selected Bibliography; A Mouzell for Melastomus; Certaine Quaeres to the Bayter of Women; Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed; Appendix: A Contemporary Response to Speght's Mouzell: Marginalia in the Yale Copy
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772568-6
- 1-280-44220-4
- 1-4237-5862-5
- 0-19-535883-X
- 1-60129-954-0
- OCLC:
- 252548267
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