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Almanacs - Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 6 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Almanacs - Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 6 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II, Part One
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Almanacs were highly influential on popular opinion during the
early modern period. They were the least expensive kinds of books
and had a practical use as a calendar, literary miscellany, weather
guide and advertising medium. The almanacs in this volume
contribute to our understanding of women's participation in popular
culture, astrology, medicine and prophecy. Sarah Jinner's almanacs
for the years 1658, 1659 and 1664, and Mary Holden's almanacs for
1688 and 1689 show a conscious effort to distance themselves from
other female religious prophets of the period by relying on the
status of astrology as a rational science. The other works in the
volume are all attributed to writers who were probably
pseudonymous. Dorothy Partridge's The Woman's Almanack for the Year
1694 includes several short articles on chiromancy. The Prophesie
of Mother Shipton concerns the prediction of the deaths of Cardinal
Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell. The final works in the volume comprise
two texts by Shinkin ap Shone which satirize the Welsh people and
language, and The Woman's Alamanack by Sarah Ginnor which uses
sexual humour to parody the medical advice offered in Jinner's
almanacs.
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