Women Writers in English 1350-1850 – serie
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Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray
Av Judith Sargent Murray, Sharon M. Harris
Inbunden, 1996
2283 kr
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BLIncludes selections from The Gleaner, her major work, and other publicationsAs a novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet, Judith Sargent Murray candidly and often humorously asserted her opinions about the social and political conditions of women in late eighteenth-century America. As a committed …
The Poems of Charlotte Smith
Av Charlotte Smith, Stuart Curran
Häftad, 1995
841 kr
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Charlotte Smith's life was the stuff of romantic anguish; upon marriage she felt exiled in "personal slavery", and began publishing poems to earn money while in debtor's prison with her extravagant husband. They subsequently resided in France and lived on subscriptions to her poems and translation …
Fall River
An Authentic Narrative
Av Williams, Patricia Caldwell
Häftad, 1997
879 kr
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One of the earliest documentary novels, Fall River recounts the famous murder of a mill girl and the subsequent trial of a popular minister of the period. Compellingly written, it is not only a record of a sensational story of its times, but also a revealing embodiment of the social and cultural …
The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh
Av Lady Chudleigh, Mary, Margaret J.M. Ezell
Häftad, 1995
1245 kr
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The first edition of the collected poetry and prose of the Restoration feminist, Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710), this volume includes The Ladies Defence as well as her final prose meditations. New biographical and bibliographical information in the Introduction revises the existing accounts of …
The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer
Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Av Aemilia Lanyer, Susanne Woods
Häftad, 1995
860 kr
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Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) was the first woman poet in England who sought status as a professional writer. Her book of poems is dedicated entirely to women patrons. It offers a long poem on Christ's passion, told entirely from a woman's point of view, as well as the first country house poem …
The Polemics of Rachel Speght
Av Rachel Speght, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Inbunden, 1996
2389 kr
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Rachel Speght (1597?-?) is the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unapologetically and by name, as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. Her tract, A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617), is at once a spirited answer to Joseph Swetnam's very popular treatise attacking women (1617) …
The Polemics of Rachel Speght
Av Rachel Speght, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Häftad, 1996
898 kr
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Rachel Speght (1597?-?) is the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unapologetically and by name as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. Her tract, A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617), is at once a spirited answer to Joseph Swetnam's very popular treatise attacking women (1617) …
The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker
Av Jane Barker, Carol Shiner Wilson
Inbunden, 1997
2547 kr
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Novelist, religious convert, political poet, and sometime Jacobite spy, Barker wrote prolifically on a remarkable variety of subjects. 'A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies' (1723) and 'The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen' (1726) achieved immense popularity upon first appearance. Hybrid in genre, …
The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker
Av Jane Barker, Carol Shiner Wilson
Häftad, 1997
823 kr
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Novelist, religious convert, political poet, and sometime Jacobite spy, Barker wrote prolifically on a remarkable variety of subjects. 'A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies' (1723) and 'The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen' (1726) achieved immense popularity upon first appearance. Hybrid in genre, …
The Midwives Book
or The Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered
Inbunden, 1999
3653 kr
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When the midwife Jane Sharp wrote The Midwives Book in 1671, she became the first British woman to publish a midwifery manual. Drawing on works by her male contemporaries and weaving together medical information and lively anecdotes, she produces a book that is instructive, accessible, witty, and …
The Midwives Book
or The Whole Art of Midwifery Discovered
Häftad, 1999
1104 kr
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When the midwife Jane Sharp wrote The Midwives Book in 1671, she became the first British woman to publish a midwifery manual. Drawing on works by her male contemporaries and weaving together medical information and lively anecdotes, she produces a book that is instructive, accessible, witty, and …
Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies
Av Davies, Esther S. Cope
Häftad, 1996
748 kr
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Eleanor Davies was one of the most prolific women writing in early seventeenth-century England. This volume includes 38 of the sixty-odd tracts that she published. Inspired to prophecy by a visionary experience in 1625, the year of Charles I's accession to the throne, she devoted herself to warning …
The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart
Av Arbella Stuart, Sara Jayne Steen
Häftad, 1995
1538 kr
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Lady Arbella Stuart, claimant to the English throne, has traditionally been portrayed as either a hero or fool for marrying against King James's edict and attempting to flee from France. This is Stuart's story as she tells it in more than one hundred letters written to relatives, her husband, the …
A Continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia
Av Weamys, Patrick Colborn Cullen
Häftad, 1995
1048 kr
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Anne Weamys's Arcadia is a woman's own contribution to one of the dominant genres of her sex's readership in the seventeenth century: the heroic romance. Part of the considerable power and appeal of this work is its reduction of the heroic romance to a smaller scale. In its shorter length and its …
Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray
Av Judith Sargent Murray, Sharon M. Harris
Häftad, 1996
916 kr
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As a novelist, essayist, dramatist, and poet, Judith Sargent Murray candidly and often humorously asserted her opinions about the social and political conditions of women in late eighteenth-century America. As a committed feminist, she urged American women to enter a "new era in female history", …
Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood
Av Eliza Haywood, Paula R. Backscheider
Inbunden, 1999
2122 kr
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Although Eliza Haywood was one of the best known and most prolific writers in her own time, there is no modern edition of her works. This edition provides representative texts from Haywood's entire career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Tobias Smollett. …
Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood
Av Eliza Haywood, Paula R. Backscheider
Häftad, 1999
1085 kr
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Although Eliza Haywood was one of the best known and most prolific writers in her own time, there is no modern edition of her works. This edition provides representative texts from Haywood's entire career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Tobias Smollett. …
The Examinations of Anne Askew
Häftad, 1997
1010 kr
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This new addition to the Women Writers in English series records Anne Askew's narrative of her imprisonment for heresy and her interrogation by officials of church and state in the last days of Henry VIII. As a spiritual autobiography, a historical document, and a carefully crafted polemic, the …
Valperga
or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
Av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Stuart Curran
Inbunden, 1998
1345 kr
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Not reprinted since its first edition, Mary Shelley's second novel is a major discovery of the Mary Shelley bicentenary of 1997. The novel's lack of success as a follow-up to Frankenstein was the result of its subject matter and unconventional approach to the genre of historical fiction, attributes …
Valperga
or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
Av Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Stuart Curran
Häftad, 1998
1666 kr
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Not reprinted since its first edition, Mary Shelley's second novel is a major discovery of the Mary Shelley bicentenary of 1997. The novel's lack of success as a follow-up to Frankenstein was the result of its subject matter and unconventional approach to the genre of historical fiction, attributes …
Selections from The Female Spectator
Av Eliza Haywood, Patricia Meyer Spacks
Inbunden, 1999
924 kr
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After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important woman novelist of the early eighteenth century. In the 1740s and 50s Haywood also edited several serial newspapers, the most important being The Female Spectator which appeared every month from April 1744 to May 1746 and was written with a …
Selections from The Female Spectator
Av Eliza Haywood, Patricia Meyer Spacks
Häftad, 1999
1441 kr
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After Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood was the most important woman novelist of the early eighteenth century. In the 1740s and 50s Haywood also edited several serial newspapers, the most important being The Female Spectator which appeared every month from April 1744 to May 1746 and was written with a …
