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Ostovich / Sauer Reading Early Modern Women
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An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550-1700
E-Book, Englisch, 544 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-135-88768-1
Verlag: CRC Press
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Much has been written about women of the English Renaissance, but few examples of women's writing from that era have been readily available until now. 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. The writings range from poetry to philosophical treatises, addressing a wide array of subjects including law, gender, education, motherhood, medicine, religion, life-writing, and the arts. Each selection is paired with a beautifully reproduced facsimile of the text's original source manuscript, allowing a glimpse into the literary past that will lead the reader to truly appreciate the care and craft with which these women writers prepared their texts. This essential anthology is a captivating guide to the legacy of early modern women's literature and its authors that must not be overlooked.
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1.1 The Deposition of Margaret Christmas, "Suttill contra Suttill," Canterbury
Consistory Court Deposition Book (1589-92)
LENA COWEN ORLIN
1.2 Elizabeth I, "Her Majesties most Princelie answere" (1601)
NELY KEINANEN
1.3 Elizabeth Caldwell, Letter from prison, from A True Discourse Of the practises of
Elizabeth Caldwell, Master Jeffrey Bownd, Isabell Hall widdow, and George
Fernely, on the parson of Master Thomas Caldwell, in the County of Chester, to have
murdered and poysoned him, with divers others (1604)
RANDALL MARTIN
1.4 Woodcut of the execution of Elizabeth Abbott, from The Apprehension,
Arraignement, and execution of Elizabeth Abbot, alias Cebrooke, for a cruell and
horrible murther, committed on the body of Mistris Killingworth in S. Creechurch
Parish neere Aldgate in London (1608)
CATHERINE LOOMIS
1.5 Evidence against Joane Waters, from the Deposition of George Ireland,
London Consistory Court (1609/10)
LOREEN GIESE
1.6 Star Chamber Deposition of Lady Elizabeth Vaux (1622)
MARY BLACKSTONE
1.7 The Information of Mary Hall,Westminster Sessions Rolls (1626)
MARTIN INGRAM
1.8 Original will of Elizabeth Whipp, Midwife (1645/6)
DOREEN EVENDEN
1.9 The Examination of Anne Peace, Yorkshire Sessions (1659)
LAURA GOWING
1.10 Leticia Wigington, The Confession and Execution of Letitia Wigington of Ratclif,
who suffered at Tyburn, on Fryday the 9th of this instant September, 1681, written
by her own hand in the Gaol of Newgate two days be-fore her death, being
Condemned for whiping her Apprentice Girl to Death (1681)
PHILIP COLLINGTON
Bibliography
Chapter 2
Status of Women
A. the Controversy about Women
2.1 Jane Anger, Jane Anger Her Protection for Women (1589)
LINDA VECCHI
2.2 Ester Sowernam, Ester hath hang'd Haman (1617)
MATTHEW STEGGLE
2.3 Constantia Munda, The Worming of a madde Dogge (1617)
MATTHEW STEGGLE
2.4 Rachel Speght, "To the Reader," A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617)
CHRISTINA LUCKYJ
2.5 Rachel Speght, A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617)
CHRISTINA LUCKYJ
B. Education and Philosophy
2.6 Isabella Whitney, A Sweet Nosegay, or Pleasant Posye, with "Wyll and
Testament" (1573)
LINDA VECCHI
2.7 Rachael Fane, page of her school notebook (c. 1628)
CAROLINE BOWDEN
2.8 Anna Maria van Schurman, The Learned Maid, or,Whether a Maid may be a
Scholar?, Latin treatise, Paris (1638), translated back into English (1659)
JENNIFER L. ANDERSEN
2.9 Margaret Cavendish, Marchioness of Newcastle, The Worlds Olio (1655) and
Philosophical and Physical Opinions (1655)
SYLVIA BOWERBANK
2.10 Anonymous, "Verses made by a Maid under 14" (1657-8)
ROBERT C EVANS
2.11 Bathsua Makin, An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen
(1673)
MARK HOULAHAN
2.12 Mary More, The Womans Right (c. 1680)
MARGARET EZELL
2.13 Mary Astell, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694)
HEATHER CAMPBELL
2.14 Catharine Trotter (Cockburn), "To the Excellent Mr. Lock," A Defence of the
Essay of Human Understanding(1702)
ANNE KELLEY
Bibliography
Chapter 3
Mothers' Legacies and Medical Books
3.1 Isabella Whitney, "A Modest Meane for Maides" (1573)
LINDA VECCHI
3.2 Elizabeth Grymeston, Miscelanea,prayers, meditations, memoratives (1604)
ROXANNE HARDE
3.3 Dorothy Leigh, The Mothers Blessing, 1618
ROXANNE HARDE
3.4 Elizabeth Knyvet Clinton, Countess of Lincoln, The Countesse of Lincolnes
Nurserie (1622)
MARJORIE RUBRIGHT
3.5 Elizabeth Joscelin, The Mothers Legacy to her Unborn Childe (1622)
JEAN LEDREW METCALFE
3.6 M. R., The Mothers Counsell or, Live within Compasse. Being the Last Will and
Testament to her dearest Daughter (1630)
ROXANNE HARDE
3.7 Elizabeth Richardson, A Ladies Legacie to Her Daughters (1645)
ROXANNE HARDE
3.8 Sarah Jinner, An Almanack and Prognostication for the year of our Lord 1659
(1659)
ALAN WEBER
3.9 Jane Sharp, The Midwives Book (1671)
JOAN CURBET
3.10 Hannah Wolley, A Supplement to the Queen-like Closet (c. 1674-5)
ELAINE HOBBY
3.11 Mary Trye, Medicatrix, or the Woman-Physician (1675)
MARIE LOUGHLIN
3.12 Elizabeth Cellier, To Dr.--, an Answer to his Queries, concerning the Colledg of
Midwives (1688)
JOAN CURBET
Bibliography
Chapter 4
Religion, Prophecy, and Persecution
4.1 Anne Askew, The Lattre Examynacyon of Anne Askew (1546)
JENNIFER L. ANDERSEN
4.2 Elizabeth (Cooke), Lady Russell, "To the Right Honourable my most entierly
beloved and onely daughter, the Lady Anne Herbert" from A Way of
Reconciliation of a good and learned man, touching the Trueth, Nature, and
Substance of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Sacrament. (1605)
ELAINE BEILIN
4.3 Sister Joan Seller, English nun's oath of obedience (1630)
CAROLINE BOWDEN
4.4 Eleanor Davies (Lady Douglas), "Bathe Daughter of BabyLondon" (c. 1630)
MARK HOULAHAN
4.5 Alice Sutcliffe, "Epistle Dedicatory", Meditations of man's mortalitie, or, A way to
true blessednesse (1634)
DARCY MAYNARD
4.6 Elizabeth Warren, The Old and Good Way Vindicated in a Treatise Wherein
Divers Errours (both in judgement and practice, incident to these declining Times)
are unmasked, for the Caution of humble Christians (1646)
LINDA C. MITCHELL
4.7 Hannah Allen, publisher of 'The Exceeding Riches of Grace Advanced by the
Spirit of Grace, in an Empty Nothing Creature, Viz. Mris Sarah Wight' (1647)
JENNIFER L. ANDERSEN
4.8 Woodcut of Mother Shipton, from Foureteen Strange Prophesies (1648)
ALAN WEBER
4.9 Mary Cary (Rande), Little Horns Doom and Downfall and A New and More
Exact Mappe of the New Jerusalems Glory (1651)
RACHEL WARBURTON
4.10 Anonymous, "To my Sisters" and "To the Reader," Eliza's Babes (1652)
LIAM E. SEMLER
4.11 Anonymous, "The Royal Priest-hood", Eliza's Babes (1652)
LIAM E. SEMLER
4.12 Anna Trapnel, The Cry of a Stone: Or a Revelation of Something Spoken in
Whitehall. (1654)
LINDA C. MITCHELL
4.13 Hester Biddle, A Warning from the Lord God of Life and Power (1660)
RACHEL WARBURTON
4.14 Elizabeth Calvert, publisher of Mirabilis annus, Or, the Year of Prodigies and
Wonders (1661)
JENNIFER L. ANDERSEN
4.15 Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers, A Short Relation of Some of the Cruel
Sufferings (For the Truths Sake) of Katharine Evans & Sarah Chevers,To the
Inquisition in the Isle of Malta (1662)
ELIZABETH SKERPAN-WHEELER
4.16 Katherine Sutton, A Christian Womans experiences of the glorious working of Gods
free grace (1663)
ELIZABETH SKERPAN-WHEELER
4.17 Anne Wentworth. A Vindication of Anne Wentworth, Tending to the Better
Preparing of All People for Her Larger Testimony, which is Making Ready for
Publick View (1677)
ELIZABETH SKERPAN-WHEELER
4.18 Hannah Allen, A Narrative of God's Gracious Dealings (1683)
ELIZABETH SKERPAN-WHEELER
4.19 Barbara Blaugdone, An Account of the Travels, Sufferings & Persecutions of
Barbara Blaugdone (1691)
ELIZABETH SKERPAN-WHEELER
Bibliography
Chapter 5
Letters
5.1 Lady Elizabeth Cavendish (Bess of Hardwick) to Francis Whitfield (14
November 1552)
JAMES DAYBELL
5.2 Elizabeth I, "The true copie of a letter from the queenes majestie, to the Lord
Mayor of London, and his brethren: conteyning a most gracious acceptation of
the great ioy which her Subjectes tooke upon the apprehension of divers persons,
detected of a most wicked conspiracie, read openly in a great assemblie of
the Commons in the Guildhall of that Citie" (22 August1586)
NELY KEINANEN
5.3 Grace O'Malley to Elizabeth I (1593)
BRANDIE SIEGFRIED
5.4 Elizabeth I to Sir Richard Bingham (6 September 1593)
BRANDIE SIEGFRIED
5.5 Elizabeth I to Frances, Countess of Hertford (November 1595)
NELY KEINANEN
5.6 Lettice Gawdy to her father Sir Robert Knollys (c. 1620)
MINNA NEVALA
5.7 Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Viscountess Falkland, to Susan (Villiers) Feilding,
Countess of Denbigh (c. December 1626)
HEATHER WOLFE
5.8 Eleanor Davies (Lady Douglas) to her daughter Lucy Hastings (1629)
MARK HOULAHAN
5.9 Katherine Oxinden to her son Henry Oxinden (14 January 1636)
MINNA PALANDER-COLLIN
5.10 Mary Fane, Countess of Westmorland, to Secretary of State Windebanke (6
May 1639)
GERALD MORTON
5.11 Elizabeth Richardson, Ladies Legacie to her Daughters, autograph dedicatory
epistle to grandson Sir Edward Dering (1645)
ROXANNE HARDE
5.12 Dorothy Osborne to William Temple (1652-4)
CARRIE HINTZ
5.13 Anne (Finch), Viscountess Conway, to Henry More (28 November 1660)
SARAH HUTTON
5.14 Mary ( Jepp) Clarke, letter to her husband Edward (6 January 1695/6)
SARA MENDELSON
Bibliography
Chapter 6
Life-Writing
A.Non-Fiction
6.1 Frances Matthew, The birthe of all my children (1583-1629)
JANE BIRD
6.2 Elizabeth Southwell (Dudley), A True Relation of what succeeded at the sickness
and death of Queen Elizabeth (1607)
CATHERINE LOOMIS
6.3 Lady Anne Clifford, Countess Dowager of Dorset, Pembroke and
Montgomery, Lives of the Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and
Montgomery (1590-1676) and of her parents, summarized by herself
HEATHER EASTERLING
6.4 Grace (Sherrington), Lady Mildmay, The Autobiography of Grace Lady Mildmay
(1617/20)
RANDALL MARTIN
6.5 Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Viscountess Falkland, The History of the Life, Reign,
and Death of Edward II (1627-8)
RANDALL MARTIN
6.6 Martha Moulsworth, "The Memorandum of Martha Moulsworth,Widdowe"
(1632)
ERIC STERLING
6.7 Anne or Lucy Cary, The Lady Falkland her Life (c. 1645)
KRISTIN LUCAS
6.8 Joyce Jefferies, spinster, Financial Diary (1638-1648)
ROBERT TITTLER
6.9 Elizabeth With of Woodbridge, Elizabeth Fools Warning (1659)
ROBERT C EVANS
6.10 Mary Penington, An account left by my dear mother Mary Penington of her
Exercises from her Childhood till her convincement, transcribed by her son John
Penington (1655-1710)
MARIE LOUGHLIN
6.11 Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (c. 1664)
MARK HOULAHAN
6.12 Agnes Beaumont, Divine Appearances. Or A very Wonderfull Account of the
Dealings of God with Mrs. Agnes Beamount. written by her self (c.1672).
KATHLEEN LYNCH
6.13 Elizabeth Freke, Elizabeth Frek Her Book (1684)
DANIEL WOOLF AND AKI BEAM
B. Fiction
6.14 Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth, frontispiece, Urania (1621)
JULIE CAMPBELL
6.15 Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth, last page of Part 1, Urania (1621)
JULIE CAMPBELL
6.16 Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, appended to Urania
(1621)
NAOMI J MILLER
6.17 Lady Hester Pulter, The Unfortunate Florinda (c. 1660)
SARAH ROSS
6.18 Mary Carleton, The case of Madam Mary Carleton, lately stiled the German
Princess (1663)
BROOKE STAFFORD
6.19 Aphra Behn, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684)
FRANCIS STEEN
6.20 Aphra Behn, Dedication, Oroonoko (1688)
DEBORAH UMAN
Bibliography
Chapter 7
Translations / Alterations
7.1 Stanzas from Thynne's 1532 edition of Chaucer's Workes, belonging to the
debate about women copied into the Devonshire Manuscript (c. 1530-1545)
ELIZABETH HEALE
7.2 Jane, Lady Lumley, Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis (c. 1554)
STEPHANIE HODGSON-WRIGHT
7.3 Anne (Cooke), Lady Bacon, John Jewel's An apologie or answere in defence of the
Churche of Englande (1564)
ELAINE BEILIN
7.4 Margaret Tyler, Preface, The Mirrour of Princely Deeds and Knighthood (1578)
JANE FARNSWORTH
7.5 Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Antonius (1592)
JOAN CURBET
7.6 Lady Anne Southwell, commonplace book entry on Ralegh's "The Lie" (after
1592)
VICTORIA BURKE
7.7 Ann Bowyer, commonplace book entry on Ralegh's "The Lie" (after 1592}
VICTORIA BURKE
7.8 Dame Alice L'Estrange and Lady Hobart in Merry Passages and Jeasts, collected
by Sir Nicholas Le Strange (c. 1650)
PAMELA ALLEN BROWN
7.9 Katherine Philips, Corneille's Pompey, A Tragedy (1663)
MARGUERITE CORPORAAL
7.10 Aphra Behn, preface to her translation of Fontenelle's A Discovery of New
Worlds (1688)
LISA SCHNELL
7.11 Aphra Behn, Cowley's Of Plants, Book VI, "Of trees" (1689)
DEBORAH UMAN
7.12 Anne (Finch), Viscountess Conway, The Principles of the most Ancient and
Modern Philosophy (Latin translation, 1690; translated back into English, 1692,
by an unknown hand)
KRISTIN DOWNEY
Bibliography
Chapter 8
Poetry
8.1 Anne Locke, Preface, A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner:Written in Maner of a
Paraphrase upon the 51. Psalme of David (1560)
JOHN OTTENHOFF
8.2 Isabella Whitney, The Copy of a Letter (1567)
LINDA VECCHI
8.3 Elizabeth I, "The doubt of future foes" (c. 1570)
NELY KEINANEN
8.4 Anne Dowriche, The French Historie (1589)
RANDALL MARTIN
8.5 Aemelia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611)
MARY SILCOX
8.6 Rachel Speght, Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed, imaginarie in
manner; reall in matter (1621)
CHRISTINA LUCKYJ
8.7 Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, "To the Angell Spirit of the
most excellent, Sir Phillip Sidney"(1623)
DEBORAH UMAN
8.8 Diana Primrose, A chaine of pearle (1630)
JANE FARNSWORTH
8.9 Alice Sutcliffe, "Of our losse by Adam," Meditations of mans mortalitie (1634)
DARCY MAYNARD
8.10 Anonymous,"Wings my Doves you have now obtain'd," Eliza's Babes (1652)
LIAM E. SEMLER
8.11 An Collins, "A Song composed in time of the Civill Warr, when the wicked
did much insult over the godly," Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653)
W. SCOTT HOWARD
8.12 Lady Hester Pulter, "Then if your Husbands rant it high and Game"(1640-65)
SARAH ROSS
8.13 Rachel Jevon, Exultationis carmen (1660)
JOSEPH CROWLEY
8.14 Philo-Philippa, "To the Excellent Orinda" (1667)
ROBERT C. EVANS
8.15 Katherine Philips, "Epitaph on her mother-in-law" (1678)
ROBERT C. EVANS
8.16 Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to her Book," Several Poems (1678)
MARGARET THICKSTUN
8.17 Ephelia, A Poem as it was Presented To His Sacred Majesty On the Discovery of the
Plott.,Written by a Lady of Quality (1679)
MAUREEN E MULVIHILL
8.18 Aphra Behn, "Young Jemmy" (1681)
FRANCIS STEEN
8.19 Sarah Fyge (Egerton), The Female Advocate: or an answer to a late satyr against
the pride, lust and inconstancy of woman (1686)
ROBERT C. EVANS
8.20 Anne Killigrew, frontispiece self-portrait, Poems (1686)
ROBERT C. EVANS
Bibliography
Chapter 9
Plays
9.1 Elizabeth (Tanfield) Cary, Viscountess Falkland, The Tragedie of Mariam (1613)
HEATHER EASTERLING
9.2 Lady Mary (Sidney) Wroth, Loves Victorie (c. 1622)
MARTINE VAN ELK
9.3 Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth (Cavendish) Brackley, The Concealed
Fansyes (c1645)
LISA HOPKINS
9.4 Margaret Cavendish, Marchioness (later Duchess) of Newcastle, Youths Glory
and Deaths Banquet (1662)
GWENO WILLIAMS
9.5 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, The Convent of Pleasure (1668),
ending revised by her husband, the Duke of Newcastle
TANYA WOOD
9.6 Elizabeth Polwhele, The Faithfull Virgins (c. 1670)
ALISON FINDLAY
9.7 Elizabeth Polwhele, The Frolicks; or, The Lawyer Cheated (c. 1671)
ALISON FINDLAY
9.8 Aphra Behn, The Rover (1677)
DEBORAH UMAN
9.9 Ephelia, "Epilogue" of the lost play, The Pair-Royal of Coxcombs, Performed at a
Dancing-School (1679)
MAUREEN E MULVIHILL
9.10 Ariadne, She Ventures and He Wins (1696)
JANE MILLING
9.11 Mary (Delariviere) Manley, The Royal Mischief (1696)
JANE MILLING
9.12 Mary Pix, Prologue, The Deceiver Deceived (1698)
JANE MILLING
9.13 Catharine Trotter (Cockburn), Dedication, Fatal Friendship (1698)
ANNE KELLEY
9.14 Catharine Trotter (Cockburn), Love at a Loss (1701)'
ANNE KELLEY
9.15 Susanna (Freeman) Centlivre, Dedication, The Busie Body (1709)
JANE MILLING
Bibliography
Chapter 10
Applied Arts and Music
10.1 A Girdle-book (c. 1540) containing Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit's Morning and
evening praiers (1574) and Queen Katherine (Parr)'s Prayers and Meditations
(?1574)
PATRICIA BRACE
10.2 Elizabeth I's embroidered cover of "The glasse of the synnefull soule" (1544)
NELY KEINANEN
10.3 Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick), embroidered
panel "Diana and Actaeon" (1597)
SUSAN FRYE
10.4 Esther Inglis, calligraphy of Octonaries (c. 1600)
ROBERT C. EVANS
10.5 "A short and sweet sonnet made by one of the maides of honor upon the death
of Queene Elizabeth, which she sowed uppon a sampler in red silke" (1603)
CATHERINE LOOMIS
10.6 Lady Anne (Bacon) Drury, photograph of her closet (c. 1624)
HEATHER MEAKIN
10.7 Lady Margaret Wemyss The Music Book of Lady Margaret Wemyss (c 1643-9)
VICTORIA BURKE
10.8 Lady Mary (Harvey) Dering, setting for "A false designe to be cruel," as
printed in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1659)
LESLIE RITCHIE
10.9 Ephelia, frontispiece, Female Poems on several Occasions (1679)
SUSAN HRACH GEORGECINK
10.10 Mary Beale, engraved portrait of Aphra Behn (c. 1682)
MAUREEN E MULVIHILL
10.11 Anne (Kingsmill) Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, The Spleen: A Pindarique Ode
(1701)
LESLIE RITCHIE
Bibliography
Contributors' Biographies
Index of Names and Titles
