Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions – serie
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27 produkter
Eugenia and Adelaide, A Novel
Frances Sheridan
Av Anna Fitzer
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Frances Sheridan’s Eugenia and Adelaide is an astonishing first novel of parental tyranny, infidelity, kidnap, blackmail, and violence played out over two volumes against the backdrop of continental Europe. The friendship of Eugenia and Adelaide endures in spite of their separation at the beginning …
Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an account of Chapone's life; a discussion of …
Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne
Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies
Av Cristina León Alfar, Emily Sherwood m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2658 kr
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The documents contained in Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies tell a story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and the ongoing dispute between Mistress Bourne and her husband about their marriage and separation, and subsequently …
Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne
Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies
Av Cristina León Alfar, Emily Sherwood m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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The documents contained in Reading Mistress Elizabeth Bourne: Marriage, Separation, and Legal Controversies tell a story of Mistress Bourne’s petition for divorce, its resolution, and the ongoing dispute between Mistress Bourne and her husband about their marriage and separation, and subsequently …
Collected Works of Jane Cavendish
Häftad, 2019
809 kr
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The first scholarly edition of the complete works of Jane Cavendish, this volume presents as complete a collection as possible of works and historical documents pertaining to a particularly compelling figure from the English Civil War. These include two manuscript poem and play collections, family …
Personal Disclosures
An Anthology of Self-Writings from the Seventeenth Century
Av David Booy
Inbunden, 2002
2879 kr
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The seventeenth century saw a dramatic increase in self-writing-from the private jotting down of personal thoughts in an irregular and spontaneous way, to the carefully considered composition of extended autobiographical narrative and deliberate self-fashioning for public consumption. Recent …
Mary Astell and John Norris
Letters Concerning the Love of God
Av Melvyn New, E. Derek Taylor
Inbunden, 2005
2504 kr
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Given the progress made in recent years in recovering the writings of early modern women, one might expect that a complete set of the important works of Mary Astell (1666-1731) would have been reissued long before now. Instead, only portions of the thought of the 'First English Feminist' have …
Domestic Politics and Family Absence
The Correspondence (1588–1621) of Robert Sidney, First Earl of Leicester, and Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester
Av Noel J. Kinnamon, Margaret P. Hannay
Inbunden, 2005
2904 kr
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Though all but three of Robert Sidney's 332 extant letters to his wife Barbara Gamage Sidney have been in the Sidney family archive, they have never previously been fully transcribed or edited. This edition of the surviving letters, which Sidney wrote to his wife when they were separated for long …
Elizabeth Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers
Inbunden, 2008
2504 kr
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In 1574, Christopher Barker published a volume of prayers and poems collected and composed by Elizabeth Tyrwhit, an intimate member of Katherine Parr's circle, governess to the princess Elizabeth, wife of a Tudor court functionary, and a wealthy widow. Later, Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers …
Lives of Spirit
English Carmelite Self-Writing of the Early Modern Period
Inbunden, 2007
2879 kr
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Nicky Hallett has uncovered a major new source of material by and about English nuns living in exile in the Low Countries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This volume presents the women's voices in unmediated form, direct in all their vibrancy, with an extensive introduction that …
Autobiographical Writings by Early Quaker Women
Av David Booy
Inbunden, 2004
876 kr
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While writings by early modern Quaker women have been discussed and quoted fairly extensively, relatively few of their texts are readily or widely available. The chief purpose of this edition is to rectify this state of affairs in one central area - that of autobiographical writing. The edition …
Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England
The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert
Inbunden, 2010
2658 kr
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A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is a rare, detailed autobiographical account of one woman's experience of mental disorder. The writer, Dionys Fitzherbert, recounts the course …
Lady Anne Halkett
Selected Self-Writings
Inbunden, 2007
2879 kr
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An in-depth examination of Lady Anne Halkett's writing is long overdue. Although Lady Anne Halkett is beginning to receive much warranted critical attention, to date scholars have concentrated almost exclusively on her autobiographical 'Memoirs'. Consequently, her extensive 'Select and Occasional …
Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine (1735)
Inbunden, 2007
2879 kr
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Elizabeth Cooper's The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine provides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender. Following the adventures …
Correspondence (c. 1626�1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester
Av Michael G. Brennan, Noel J. Kinnamon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2658 kr
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The letters of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester, dating predominantly from about 1636 until 1643, cover a wide range of issues and vividly illustrate her centrality to her illustrious family's personal and public affairs. These c.100 letters are here for the first time fully transcribed …
Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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The late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts presented here describe female servants' experiences of work in early modern London. Domestics' court depositions offer qualitative evidence that female servants were an important support of emergent capitalism in the early modern metropolis. …
Eugenia and Adelaide, A Novel
Frances Sheridan
Av Anna Fitzer
Häftad, 2021
812 kr
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Frances Sheridan’s Eugenia and Adelaide is an astonishing first novel of parental tyranny, infidelity, kidnap, blackmail, and violence played out over two volumes against the backdrop of continental Europe. The friendship of Eugenia and Adelaide endures in spite of their separation at the beginning …
Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England
The Autobiographical Writings of Dionys Fitzherbert
Häftad, 2024
742 kr
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A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is a rare, detailed autobiographical account of one woman's experience of mental disorder. The writer, Dionys Fitzherbert, recounts the course …
Correspondence (c. 1626�1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester
Av Michael G. Brennan, Noel J. Kinnamon m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
742 kr
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The letters of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester, dating predominantly from about 1636 until 1643, cover a wide range of issues and vividly illustrate her centrality to her illustrious family's personal and public affairs. These c.100 letters are here for the first time fully transcribed …
Experience of Domestic Service for Women in Early Modern London
Häftad, 2019
943 kr
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The late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts presented here describe female servants' experiences of work in early modern London. Domestics' court depositions offer qualitative evidence that female servants were an important support of emergent capitalism in the early modern metropolis. …
Mary Astell and John Norris
Letters Concerning the Love of God
Av Melvyn New, E. Derek Taylor
Häftad, 2018
993 kr
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Given the progress made in recent years in recovering the writings of early modern women, one might expect that a complete set of the important works of Mary Astell (1666-1731) would have been reissued long before now. Instead, only portions of the thought of the 'First English Feminist' have …
Domestic Politics and Family Absence
The Correspondence (1588–1621) of Robert Sidney, First Earl of Leicester, and Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester
Av Noel J. Kinnamon, Margaret P. Hannay
Häftad, 2018
917 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Though all but three of Robert Sidney's 332 extant letters to his wife Barbara Gamage Sidney have been in the Sidney family archive, they have never previously been fully transcribed or edited. This edition of the surviving letters, which Sidney wrote to his wife when they were separated for long …
Two Early Modern Marriage Sermons
Henry Smith’s A Preparative to Marriage (1591) and William Whately’s A Bride-Bush (1623)
Av Robert Matz
Häftad, 2018
943 kr
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This critical edition of two early modern marriage sermons provides an important resource for students and scholars of early modern literature and history, allowing them to experience firsthand the competing and historically layered ideas about marriage that circulated in the wake of the English …
Two Early Modern Marriage Sermons
Henry Smith’s A Preparative to Marriage (1591) and William Whately’s A Bride-Bush (1623)
Av Robert Matz
Inbunden, 2016
2879 kr
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This critical edition of two early modern marriage sermons provides an important resource for students and scholars of early modern literature and history, allowing them to experience firsthand the competing and historically layered ideas about marriage that circulated in the wake of the English …
Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives by Sarah Chapone
Inbunden, 2018
3146 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an account of Chapone's life; a discussion of …
Collected Works of Jane Cavendish
Inbunden, 2017
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The first scholarly edition of the complete works of Jane Cavendish, this volume presents as complete a collection as possible of works and historical documents pertaining to a particularly compelling figure from the English Civil War. These include two manuscript poem and play collections, family …
Female Monastic Life in Early Tudor England
With an Edition of Richard Fox's Translation of the Benedictine Rule for Women, 1517
Inbunden, 2002
2504 kr
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This gendered translation of the Benedictine Rule for women in 1517 is also a handbook for women on exercising authority, management skills and the art of good governance, including monastic property and relations with the outside world. Barry Collett here provides a modern facsimile edition of …
