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Lay by Your Needles Ladies, Take the Pen: Writing Women in England, 1500-1700 »
Authors: Suzanne Trill (Editor), Kate Chedgzoy (Editor), Melanie Osborne
ISBN-13: 9780340691489, ISBN-10: 0340691484
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication
Date Published: June 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Suzanne Trill
Queen's University, Belfast
University of Warwick
University of Durham
Book Synopsis
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 recognized 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 promote "a gendered poetics that rereads men's texts in the weave of women's". The result is a comprehensive introduction to women's writing in the Renaissance that encourages the exploration of the differences between women.
Table of Contents
| About the editors | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Textual editing | 21 | |
| The Instruction of a Christen Woman (1530) | 23 | |
| Fouretene Sermons of Barnadine Ochyne (1550) | 28 | |
| The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558) | 32 | |
| The Mirrour of Princely Deedes and Knighthood (1578) | 38 | |
| A Mirrhor mete for all Mothers, Matrones and Maidens, intituled the Mirrhor of Modestie (1579) | 44 | |
| A Handfull of Holesome (though Homelie) Hearbs (1584) | 50 | |
| A Christal Glasse, for Christian Women (1591) | 57 | |
| A Discourse of Life and Death (1592) | 62 | |
| Diary (1599-1605) | 68 | |
| Letters (1604-1607) | 75 | |
| The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward and Unconstant Women (1615) | 82 | |
| A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617) | 87 | |
| Ester Hath Hang'd Haman (1617) | 94 | |
| The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania (1621) | 101 | |
| The Mothers Blessing (1621) | 107 | |
| Of Domesticall Duties (1622) | 112 | |
| The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie (1622) | 119 | |
| The Life of the most Honourable and Vertous Lady, the La. Magdalen, Viscountesse Montague (1627) | 125 | |
| Bishop of Belley, Admirable Events (1639) | 131 | |
| The Mid-wives Just Petition (1643) | 135 | |
| Letters (1642-1643) | 139 | |
| Her Appeal (1646) | 146 | |
| 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) | 151 | |
| The Exceeding Riches of Grace Advanced By the Spirit of Grace, in an Empty Nothing Creature, viz. Mris. Sarah Wight (1647) | 155 | |
| A Strange and True Relation Of a Young Woman Possest with the Devill (1647) | 162 | |
| A Vision: Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the Kingdome (1648) | 164 | |
| Mris. Cookes Meditations (1649) | 169 | |
| A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia (1651) | 175 | |
| Ohel or Beth-Shemesh. A Tabernacle for the Sun (1653) | 182 | |
| Letters (1653) | 187 | |
| Strange and Wonderfull Newes from White-Hall (1654) | 193 | |
| A Message from God, By a Dumb Woman (1653/4) | 197 | |
| To the Priests and People of England we Discharge our Consciences, and Give them Warning (1655) | 200 | |
| Nature's Pictures, Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life (1656) | 202 | |
| The Learned Maid; or, Whether a Maid may be a Scholar? A Logick Exercise (1659) | 209 | |
| 'The Life and Death of Mrs. Margaret Corbet, who dyed Anno Christi, 1656', from Samuel Clarke, Lives of Ten Eminent Divines (1662) | 211 | |
| Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed of by the Scriptures (1666) | 217 | |
| Memoirs and Meditations (1662-1671) | 221 | |
| The Midwives Book (1671) | 227 | |
| The Legacy of a Dying Mother (1673) | 233 | |
| An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen (1673) | 239 | |
| The Woman's Right (c. 1674-1680) | 246 | |
| The Womans Right Proved False in which the True Right is Easily Discerned (1674-1680) | 255 | |
| Murther Will Out, Or, A True and Faithful Relation of an Horrible Murther commited Thirty Three Years ago, by an Unnatural Mother (1675) | 258 | |
| The Gentlewomans Companion (1675) | 261 | |
| Memoirs (fl. 1677) | 266 | |
| Meditations and Visions (1679) | 271 | |
| A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) | 275 | |
| Mrs Elizabeth Gaunt's Last Speech (1685) | 280 | |
| Agnes de Castro: Or, the Force of Generous Love (1688) | 282 | |
| Select bibliography | 291 |
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