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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)

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Author Biography: Stephanie Hodgson-Wright

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.

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chronology
1Speech to the Troops at Tilbury1
2from Her Protection for Women2
3from A Discourse of Life and Death7
4Speech at the Dissolving of Parliament14
5The Golden Speech16
6'A Dialogue between two shepherds, Thenot and Piers, in Praise of Astraea17
7Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum20
8The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry78
9from A Muzzle for Melastomus137
10Pamphilia to Amphilanthus143
11from A Chain of Pearl199
12A True Copy of the Petition of Gentlewomen, and Tradesmen's Wives203
13A Vision: Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the Kingdom207
14Strange and Wonderful News from Whitehall212
15from The Case of Madam Mary Carleton217
16from Poems225
17The Convent of Pleasure257
18from An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen287
19from Several Poems293
20Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave314
21The Widow Ranter, or The History of Bacon in Virginia369
Notes433
Biographical notes461
Bibliography468
Index of themes477

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