Women's Writing in English: Early Modern EnglandIn this introduction to the diversity and scope of the writing by women in England from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Patricia Demers discusses the creative realities of women writers' accomplishments and the cultural conditions under which they wrote. There were deep suspicions and restrictions surrounding the education of women during this period, and thus the contributions of women to literature, and to the print industry itself, are largely unknown. This wide-ranging examination of the genres of early modern women's writing embraces translation (from Latin, Greek, and French) 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. A close study of six major authors - Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and Katherine Philips - explores their work as poets, dramatists, and romantic fiction writers. Demers invites readers to savour the subtlety and daring with which these women authors made writing an expressly social craft. |
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... Letters and Diaries Poetry Elizabethan Poets: Isabella Whitney, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Anne Vaughan Lock, Lady Mary Sidney Herbert, Anne Dowriche, Elizabeth Melville 14 19 26 37 46 56 64 65 78 93 99 112 119 128 ix xi 3 Esther ...
... Letters Jacobean Polemical Talents : Aemilia Lanyer , Bathsua Reginald , Rachel Speght , Lady Mary Wroth 139 148 Caroline , Protectorate , and Restoration Poets ' Complication of Early Modern Selfhood : Diana Primrose , Mary Fage , An ...
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Contents
Studying Early Modern Women Writers | 3 |
Women in Early Modern England | 14 |
Educating Women | 26 |
Praising and Blaming Women | 37 |
Wiving and Thriving | 46 |
Childbearing | 56 |
The Genres of Early Modern Womens Writing | 63 |
Meditations and Testimonials | 99 |
Six Major Authors | 195 |
Aemilia Lanyer 15691645 | 202 |
Elizabeth Tanfield Cary Viscountess Falkland 15851639 | 208 |
Lady Mary Wroth 15871653 | 215 |
Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle 16231673 | 225 |
Katherine Philips the Matchless Orinda 16321664 | 234 |
Postscript | 241 |
Notes | 275 |