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Author : Brown University. Women Writers Project
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 19??
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Author : Eliza Fowler Haywood
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 1999
Category : England
ISBN : 0195108477
This edition provides representative texts from Eliza Haywood's career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing she produced, and the ways she treated important themes and issues.
Author : Charlotte Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 1993-12-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0195344766
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) was the author of ten novels, a play, and a host of innovative educational books for children, as well as several volumes of poetry that helped set priorities and determine the tastes of the culture of early Romanticism. Her Elegiac Sonnets sparked the sonnet revival in English Romanticism; The Emigrants initiated its passion for lengthy meditative introspection; and Beachy Head lent its poetic engagement with nature a uniquely telling immediacy. Smith was a woman, Wordsworth remarked a quarter century after her death, "to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered." True to his prediction, Smith's poetry has virtually dropped from sight and thus from cultural consciousness. This, the first edition of Smith's collected poems, will restore to all students of English poetry a distinctive, compelling voice. Likewise, the recovery of Smith to her rightful place among the Romantic poets must spur the reassessment of the place of women writers within that culture.
Author : Anne Askew
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195108491
As a spiritual autobiography, historical document and carefully crafted polemic, Askew's narrative of her imprisonment for heresy and her interrogation by officials of church and state gives insight into Reformation politics and society in England.
Author : Rachel Speght
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 1996-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019535883X
Rachel Speght was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unmistakably and by name, as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This edition includes her foray into the Jacobean gender wars and her collected poems. Speght's tract, A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617), is at once a spirited answer to Joseph Swetnam's attack on women and a serious effort to stake women's claim to the prevailing Protestant discourse of biblical exegesis, in order to define a more expansive and more equitable concept of gender. Speght's volume of poems, Mortalities Memorandum with a Dreame Prefixed (1621)--printed, in part, to counter charges that her prose was actually her father's--includes a long memento mori meditation and an allegorical dream vision that recounts her own rapturous encounter with learning. Both texts vigorously defend women's education and promote women's talents. This latest addition to the Women Writers in English series should find a ready audience among scholars and students of early seventeenth-century literature, history, and religion, as well as among those in women's studies.
Author : Lady Eleanor Douglas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0195087178
Eleanor Davies was one of the most prolific women writing in early - 17th-century England. This volume includes 38 of her tracts, revealing her experiences as a woman and exhibiting her extraordinary intellect, extensive education and fascination with words.
Author : Randall Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317862910
Of all the new developments in literary theory, feminism has proved to be the most widely influential, leading to an expansion of the traditional English canon in all periods of study. This book aims to make the work of Renaissance women writers in English better known to general and academic readers so as to strengthen the case for their future inclusion in the Renaissance literary canon. This lively book surveys women writers in the sixteenth century and early seventeenth centuries. Its selection is vast, historically representative, and original, taking examples from twenty different, relatively unknown authors in all genres of writing, including poetry, fiction, religious works, letters and journals, translation, and books on childcare. It establishes new contexts for the debate about women as writers within the period and suggests potential intertextual connections with works by well-known male authors of the same time. Individual authors and works are given concise introductions, with both modern and historical critical analysis, setting them in a theoretical and historicised context. All texts are made readily accessible through modern spelling and punctuation, on-the-page annotation and headnotes. The substantial, up-to-date bibliography provides a source for further study and research.
Author : Mrs. Jane Sharp
Publisher :
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 1671
Category : Medicine
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This work supplied English midwives and English women with a compendium of information for the Continent and from the author's own thirty years of experience.
Author : Jane Barker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195086503
Hybrid in genre the works of Jane Barker include realistic stories, romances, poetry, religious & philosophical reflections and critiques of early 18th century England. She was a religious convert, poet and some of the time a Jacobite spy.
Author : Mary, Lady Chudleigh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 1993-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019535933X
The first edition of the collected poetry and prose of the Restoration feminist, Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710), this volume includes The Ladies Defence as well as her final prose meditations. New biographical and bibliographical information in the Introduction revises the existing accounts of her life and literary career. The volume makes available for the first time the complete range of Chudleigh's literary experiments and calls for a reassessment of the image of the woman writer of the Restoration. A friend of John Dryden and Mary Astell, Chudleigh experimented with a variety of literary forms, from satire to biblical paraphrase, but always maintained her belief in the importance of education for women and the necessity for self-determination.