Teresa Feroli’s facsimile edition of Eleanor Davies’ pre-1640 texts (Ashgate, 2000), this pair of volumes reproduces 60 texts...... more

is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek Virgin". That same year she published her...... more

Katherine Chidley was a religious and political activist who dissented from the established church throughout the 1620s...... more

world in which daily sustenance and physical health were primarily women s responsibilities, women were central to these...... more

one planted was related to one s role in society. These texts attest to the changing nature of gardening - from a largely...... more

By turns witty and inane, crude and learned, scurrilous and moralistic, jestbooks offer an important... more

moral and political acuity. She had the mixed fortune of being enshrined in posthumous volumes that both celebrated and...... more

on women, and although none argues for women s citizenship or social equality, many claim an original or spiritual...... more

Norwich brings contemplative insights of God s love to a sinful and suffering humanity; Margery Kempe actively weeps for her...... more

The works included in this volume constitute Delarivier Manley s early oeuvre, written in the seventeenth century. They...... more

treatise devoted to the legal rights of women. "The Womans Lawyer," as the treatise’s running headline and spine title read...... more

As voyeuristic and prurient as today s tabloid newspapers, early modern crime pamphlets and broadside ballads about...... more

Born Alice Clarke, the daughter of Oxford university s first director of printing , Alicia D Anvers poetry...... more

daughter, Lady Grace Gethin (1676-97). The posthumous publication of Gethin s collection of essays Misery s Virtues Whet-Stone...... more

An Epitome of the History of Faire Argenis and Polyarchus is Judith Man s English translation of a 1623 French work by...... more

The Popish Plot, expressing support for King Charles II. A new addition to the corpus of Ephelia s work is a variant of...... more

and arithemetic. One of the reasons for the paucity of such writings is that many commentators viewed women s ability to...... more

history of each text. With the exception of Rowlandson s works, the writings in these volumes are the first complete...... more

history of each text. With the exception of Rowlandson s works, the writings in these volumes are the first complete...... more

against one another, but rather in pairs, sometimes clusters, of texts in which women s writing is foregrounded even as it...... more

against one another, but rather in pairs, sometimes clusters, of texts in which women’s writing is foregrounded even as it...... more

Today s leaders are reinventing everything but themselves, and this is why so many attempts to revolutionize business...... more

"It says something," write Lynda Boose and Betty Flowers, "that of the possible structural permutations of parent-child...... more

d Husband (1700), She Ventures and He Wins (1695) and The Unnatural Mother (1698) were written at a point in time when...... more

Susanna Hopton was born in 1627 to a wealthy mercantile family. By 1651 she was collaborating with her future husband...... more

some thirty-three years after her death. Some of More s other verse and prose appears in the biography that Baker composed...... more

this, no complete, collected edition of Barker s poems has yet appeared, and the present volume is the first reproduction...... more

As works designed for mothers to instruct their children within the home, early modern mother-direct... more

pamphlets in 1680: accounts of her two trials, her self-vindication, Malice Defeated, her opponent Thomas Dangerfield’s...... more

succession of six different monarchs. James petitioned all of them and claimed to have obtained audiences with three. In 1689 she...... more

An Collins Divine Songs and Meditacions were first printed in a small octavo volume in London in 16... more

that accepts God s rod of affliction. The speaking voice of Honey on the Rod is unmistakeably that of a woman and as such...... more

to Christ s redemptive majesty. Interspersed amongst these two kinds of verse are a few other poems which directly...... more

This facsimile edition reproduces the work titled Eliza s Babes which was first published in 1652. The volume comprises...... more

in this volume contribute to our understanding of women s participation in popular culture, astrology, medicine and...... more

The history of the angelicall virgin glorious S.Clare (Douai 1635) is a translation by Sister Magdalen of a work by...... more