Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology 1560-1700 - Oxford World's Classics - Salzman, Paul (Ed) - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199549672 - July 10, 2008
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Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology 1560-1700 - Oxford World's Classics

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In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have been destined for a career as illustrious as that of her brother William, except that she had none of his chances. The truth is that many women wrote during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and this collection will serve to introduce modern readers tothe full variety of women's writing in this period - from poems, prose and fiction to prophecies, letters, tracts and philosophy. Here are examples of the work of twelve women writers, from aristocrats such as Mary Wroth, Anne Clifford and Margaret Cavendish to women of obscure background caught up in thereligious ferment of the mid seventeenth century like Hester Biddle, Pricscilla Cotton and Mary Cole. The collection includes three plays, and a generous selection of poetry, letters, diary, prose fiction, religious polemic, prophecy and science.


496 pages

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Released July 10, 2008
ISBN13 9780199549672
Publishers Oxford University Press
Genre Sex & Gender > Feminine
Pages 496
Dimensions 129 × 194 × 32 mm   ·   362 g
Language English  
Editor Salzman, Paul (Senior Lecturer in School of English, Senior Lecturer in School of English, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)

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