Authors: Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, Stephanie Hodgson-Wright
ISBN-13: 9780231127844, ISBN-10: 0231127847
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: July 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Stephanie Hodgson-Wright is lecturer in the department of English, University of Sunderland. She is the coauthor of Women and Dramatic Production, 1550-1700 and the editor of Elizabeth Cary's Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry.
This anthology brings together a broad selection of women's writings from the Early Modern period including poetry, literary prose, polemical prose, and drama, most of which are unavailable elsewhere. Full texts and substantial extracts are included of writings by Elizabeth I, Margaret Cavendish, Anna Trapnel, Aphra Behn, Mary Carleton, Mary Herbert, Jane Anger, Rachel Speght, and others.
Introduction | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Chronology | ||
1 | Speech to the Troops at Tilbury | 1 |
2 | from Her Protection for Women | 2 |
3 | from A Discourse of Life and Death | 7 |
4 | Speech at the Dissolving of Parliament | 14 |
5 | The Golden Speech | 16 |
6 | 'A Dialogue between two shepherds, Thenot and Piers, in Praise of Astraea | 17 |
7 | Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum | 20 |
8 | The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry | 78 |
9 | from A Muzzle for Melastomus | 137 |
10 | Pamphilia to Amphilanthus | 143 |
11 | from A Chain of Pearl | 199 |
12 | A True Copy of the Petition of Gentlewomen, and Tradesmen's Wives | 203 |
13 | A Vision: Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the Kingdom | 207 |
14 | Strange and Wonderful News from Whitehall | 212 |
15 | from The Case of Madam Mary Carleton | 217 |
16 | from Poems | 225 |
17 | The Convent of Pleasure | 257 |
18 | from An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen | 287 |
19 | from Several Poems | 293 |
20 | Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave | 314 |
21 | The Widow Ranter, or The History of Bacon in Virginia | 369 |
Notes | 433 | |
Biographical notes | 461 | |
Bibliography | 468 | |
Index of themes | 477 |