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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge ... more

In 1625, Lady Eleanor Davies published her first treatise, A Warning to the Dragon, initiating her c... more

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies’ life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a "Heavenly voi... more

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

Recipe books are a key part of food history; they register the ideals and practices of domestic work... more

During the period 1500-1750 a general shift in gardening practice took place, from which emerged thr... more

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

Katherine Philips was a major seventeenth-century poet and playwright who became widely known for he... more

The querelle des femmes was a debate over the condition of women in society lasting four centuries a... more

This volume includes the works of three Englishwomen: Julian of Norwich (1342-c.1416) whose Revelati... more

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

This first volume of "Legal Treatises" reproduces The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights (1632), the... more

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

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

This facsimile edition features the intimately related writings of a mother, Lady Frances Norton (16... more

An Epitome of the History of Faire Argenis and Polyarchus is Judith Man s English translation of a 1... more

This facsimile edition reproduces the extant works of the seventeenth-century poet, Ephelia . By tr... more

From the beginning of the seventeenth century, English society started to become preoccupied with ed... more

Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiogr... more

Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiogr... more

Most anthologies of Renaissance writing include only (or predominantly) male writers, whereas those ... more

Most anthologies of Renaissance writing include only (or predominantly) male writers, whereas those ... more

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

Gertrude More belongs to a tradition of mystical writers who believed in the value of the via negati... more

Jane Barker (1652-1732) is increasingly being recognised as one of the most important English women ... more

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

Elizabeth Cellier, the scandalous celebrity known as the "Popish midwife", became the focus of a lar... more

This volume makes available for the first time the complete surviving works of the London printer-au... more

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

Elizabeth Major was inspired to write Honey on the Rod (1656) as a result of lameness brought on by ... more

The Females Legacy is the only surviving work of Amey Howard about whom very little is known. While ... more

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

Almanacs were highly influential on popular opinion during the early modern period. They were the le... more

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

Isabella Whitney is the earliest Englishwoman known to have written original secular poetry in Engli... more

The four plays in this volume represent just a small fraction of the total output by early modern wo... more