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The Polemics of Rachel Speght - Women Writers in English 1350-1850
The Polemics of Rachel Speght - Women Writers in English 1350-1850
Rachel Speght
Rachel Speght (1597-?) was the first Englishwoman to identify herself as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This study discusses both her tract, "A Mouzell for Melastomus" (1617) and her volume of poetry, "Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed" (1612).
144 pages, bibliography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 20, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195086140 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 144 |
| Dimensions | 143 × 217 × 16 mm · 335 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer (Professor of English and American Literature, Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University) |