Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology, 1560-1700

by Mary Cole, Anne Clifford, Isabella Whitney, et al.

Book Overview

This anthology is a unique collection of rare women's writing written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This collection introduces modern readers to the various examples of the work of women writers from these centuries and includes poems, prose and fiction, drama, letters, prophecies, tracts and philosophy. The collection begins with the poetry of Isabella Whitney, who worked in a gentlewoman's household in London in the late 1560s,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199549672
• ISBN13: 9780199549672
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.0" x 7.5"