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Lay by your needles ladies, take the pen : writing women in England, 1500-1700

Title: Lay by your needles ladies, take the pen : writing women in England, 1500-1700 / edited by Suzanne Trill, Kate Chedgzoy, Melanie Osborne.
Publication: London ; New York : Arnold ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997.

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viii, 299 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This anthology contains long extracts from fifty early modern texts, including witchcraft pamphlets, letters and other manuscript material, prophetic texts, practical books and petitions, as well as the more widely recognised genres of prose fiction and autobiography. The women writers themselves represent a range of different social, religious and political positions. Texts by male writers are also included to encourage readers to engage with gendered poetics of literary production. The result is a comprehensive introduction to early modern women's writing that also encourages the exploration of the differences between women.

Subject

Genre/Form

Literature.
History.
Literary collections.
Sources.
Littérature.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-299).

Contents

The Instruction of a Christen Woman (1530) / J.L. Vives -- Fouretene Sermons of Barnadine Ochyne (1550) -- The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558) / John Knox -- The Mirrour of Princely Deedes and Knighthood (1578) / D. Ortunez de Calaharra -- A Mirrhor mete for all Mothers, Matrones and Maidens, intituled the Mirrhor of Modestie (1579) / Thomas Salter -- A Handfull of Holesome (though Homelie) Hearbs (1584) / Anne Wheathill -- A Christal Glasse, for Christian Women (1591) / Philip Stubbes -- A Discourse of Life and Death (1592) / Philippe de Mornay -- Diary (1599-1605) / Margaret Hoby -- Letters (1604-1607) / Maria Thynne -- The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward and Unconstant Women (1615) / Joseph Swetnam -- A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617) / Rachel Speght -- Ester Hath Hang'd Haman (1617) / Ester Sowernam -- The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania (1621) / Mary Wroth -- The Mothers Blessing (1621) / Dorothy Leigh -- Of Domesticall Duties (1622) / William Gouge -- The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie (1622) / Elizabeth Clinton -- The Life of the most Honourable and Vertous Lady, the La. Magdalen, Viscountesse Montague (1627) / Richard Smith -- Bishop of Belley, Admirable Events (1639) / John Peter Camus -- The Mid-wives Just Petition (1643) / Anon. -- Letters (1642-1643) / Brilliana Harley -- Her Appeal (1646) / Eleanor Davies -- The First and Second Part of Gangraena: or A Catalogue and Discovery of many of the Errors, Heresies, Blasphemies and pernicious Practices of the Sectaries of this time (1646) / Thomas Edwards -- The Exceeding Riches of Grace Advanced By the Spirit of Grace, in an Empty Nothing Creature, viz. Mris. Sarah Wight (1647) / Henry Jessey -- A Strange and True Relation Of a Young Woman Possest with the Devill (1647) / James Dalton -- A Vision: Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the Kingdome (1648) / Elizabeth Poole -- Mris. Cookes Meditations (1649) / Frances Cooke -- A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia (1651) / Anna Weamys -- Ohel or Beth-Shemesh. A Tabernacle for the Sun (1653) / John Rogers -- Letters (1653) / Dorothy Osborne -- Strange and Wonderfull Newes from White-Hall (1654) / Anna Trapnel -- A Message from God, By a Dumb Woman (1653/4) / Elinor Channel -- To the Priests and People of England we Discharge our Consciences, and Give them Warning (1655) / Priscilla Cotton and Mary Cole -- Nature's Pictures, Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life (1656) / Margaret Cavendish -- The Learned Maid; or, Whether a Maid may be a Scholar? A Logick Exercise (1659) / Anna Maria van Schurman -- 'The Life and Death of Mrs. Margaret Corbet, who dyed Anno Christi, 1656', from Samuel Clarke, Lives of Ten Eminent Divines (1662) / Henry Wilkinson -- Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed of by the Scriptures (1666) / Margaret Fell -- Memoirs and Meditations (1662-1671) / Elizabeth DeLaval -- The Midwives Book (1671) / Jane Sharp -- The Legacy of a Dying Mother (1673) / Susanna Bell -- An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen (1673) / Bathsua Pell Makin -- The Woman's Right (c. 1674-1680) / Mary More -- The Womans Right Proved False in which the True Right is Easily Discerned (1674-1680) / Robert Whitehall -- Murther Will Out, Or, A True and Faithful Relation of an Horrible Murther commited Thirty Three Years ago, by an Unnatural Mother (1675) / Anon. -- The Gentlewomans Companion (1675) / Hannah Woolley -- Memoirs (fl. 1677) / Anne Halkett -- Meditations and Visions (1679) / Anne Bathurst -- A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) / Mary Rowlandson -- Mrs Elizabeth Gaunt's Last Speech (1685) / Elizabeth Gaunt -- Agnes de Castro: Or, the Force of Generous Love (1688) / J.V. Brilhac.

ISBN

0340691484
9780340691489
0340614501
9780340614501

LCCN

97016333

OCLC

ocm36705833
36705833
SCSB-2127324

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library