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The Poets, Isabella Whitney, Anne Dowriche, Elizabeth Melville [Colville], Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Diane Primrose and Anne, Mary and Penelope Grey - Printed Writings 1500-1640: Series I, Part Two, Volume 10 (Hardcover)
Betty S. Travitsky; Edited by Susanne Woods
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Isabella Whitney is the earliest Englishwoman known to have written
original secular poetry in English for publication. The Copy of a
Letter contains four poems written in the personae of persons
jilted in love. The only known copy of this volume is held at the
Bodleian Library and is reproduced here. Whitney's second
collection A Sweet Nosgay contains poetry in traditional stanzas
and in prose format. Reproduced here is the unique copy held at the
British Library. The French Historie by Anne Dowriche takes as its
subject three events from the religious wars in France: the affair
of the Rue St Jacques (1557); the Martyrdom of Annas Burgeus (1559)
and the St Bartholomew's Massacre (1572). Her work takes as its
source Thomas Tymme's The Three Partes of Commentaries, Containing
the whole and perfect discourse of the Civill warres in Fraunce
(1574). We reproduce here the fine copy of The French Historie held
at the Huntington Library and also append two short poems thought
to be hers. Ane Godlie Dreame, Compylit in Scottish Meter is
Elizabeth Melville's first person account of a pilgrim who is
guided through the afterworld. While many of the variations in the
different editions are merely accidental, there are some
substantial changes. As an aid to bibliographic study of the poem
therefore, copies of the following four editions are reproduced
here: 1603 National Library of Scotland; 1604 National Library of
Scotland; 1606 Huntington Library; 1620 British Library. Aemilia
Lanyer was the first woman writing in English to produce a
substantial volume of poetry designed to be printed and to attract
patrongage. The Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum was published in 1611 and
contains a series of poems to individual patrons, two short prose
dedications, a title poem on Christ's passion and the first country
house poem printed in English. The volume is arguably the first
genuinely feminist publication in England: all its dedicatees are
women and the poem on the passion argu
The three series of Printed Writings (1500-1640, 1641-1700, and
1701-1750) provide a comprehensive, if not entirely complete,
collection of separately published writings by women. In reprinting
these writings it is intended to remedy one of the major obstacles
to the advancement of feminist criticism of the early modern
period, namely the unavailability of the very texts upon which the
field is based. The volumes in the facsimile library reproduce
carefully chosen copies of these texts, incorporating a short
introduction providing an overview of the life and work of a writer
along with a survey of important scholarship. Printed Writings
1500-1640, Series I, Part Four consists of five volumes of writings
by early modern Englishwomen. The set comprises the following
titles: Volume 1: Elizabeth Evelinge III Volume 2: Catherine
Greenbury and Mary Percy Volume 3: Julian of Norwich; Marjorie
Kempe and Juliana Berners Volume 4: Anne Campbell Volume 5: Anne
Phoenix
Essential Works Series III, Part One consists of seven volumes of
writings grouped by genre. The set comprises the following titles:
Volume 1: Legal Treatises Volume 1 Volume 2: Legal Treatises Volume
2 Volume 3: Legal Treatises Volume 3 Volume 4: The Monument of
Matrones Volume 1 (Lamps 1-3) Volume 5: The Monument of Matrones
Volume 2 (Lamp 4) Volume 6: The Monument of Matrones Volume 3
(Lamps 5-7) Volume 7: Women and Murder in Early Modern News
Pamphlets and Broadside Ballads, 1573-1697
The three series of Printed Writings (1500-1640, 1641-1700, and
1701-1750) provide a comprehensive, if not entirely complete,
collection of separately published writings by women. In reprinting
these writings it is intended to remedy one of the major obstacles
to the advancement of feminist criticism of the early modern
period, namely the unavailability of the very texts upon which the
field is based. The volumes in the facsimile library reproduce
carefully chosen copies of these texts, incorporating a short
introduction providing an overview of the life and work of a writer
along with a survey of important scholarship. Printed Writings
1641-1700, Series II, Part Two consists of nine volumes of writings
grouped by genre. The set comprises the following titles: Volume 1:
An Collins Volume 2: Alicia D'Anvers Volume 3: Eliza Volume 4: Amey
Hayward Volume 5: Anne Killigrew Volume 6: Elizabeth Major Volume
7: Elizabeth Singer [Rowe] Volume 8: Ephelia Volume 9: Grace Norton
[Gethin] and Frances (Freke) Norton
Printed Writings 1641-1700, Series II, Part One consists of seven
volumes of writings grouped by genre. The set comprises the
following titles: Volume 1: Life Writings I Volume 2: Life Writings
II Volume 3: Mother's Advice Books Volume 4: Writings on Medicine
Volume 5: Educational and Vocational Books Volume 6: Almanacs
Volume 7: Miscellaneous Plays
Printed Writings 1500-1640, Series I, Part Three consists of five
volumes of writings translated by early modern Englishwomen. The
set comprises the following titles: Volume 1: Elizabeth Tyrwhit
Volume 2: Judith Man Volume 3: Elizabeth Evelinge I Volume 4:
Pudentiana Deacon Volume 5: Elizabeth Evelinge II
Printed Writings 1500-1640, Series I, Part Two consists of thirteen
volumes of writings by and about early modern Englishwomen. The set
comprises the following titles: Volume 1: Anne Cooke Bacon Volume
2: Brief Confessional Writings: Grey, Stubbes, Livingstone,
Clarksone Volume 3: Eleanor Davies Volume 4: Early Tudor
Translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More Roper and Mary Basset
Volume 5: Elizabeth and Mary Tudor Volume 6: Anne, Margaret and
Jane Seymour Volume 7: Neo-Latin Women Writers: Elizabeth Jane
Weston and Bathsua Reginald (Makin) Volume 8: Mother's Advice Books
Volume 9: Jane Owen Volume 10: The Poets, I: Whitney, Dowriche,
Melville (Colville), Lanyer, Speght and Primrose Volume 11: The
Poets II: Mary Fage Volume 12: Protestant Translators: Anne Lock
Prowse and Elizabeth Russell Volume 13: Recusant Translators:
Elizabeth Cary and Alexia Grey
Early modern works of advice can be typified by a number of texts
by Erasmus falling into a variety of categories: advice on family
conduct; manners; study plans and piety. A close relation to these
works of advice was the parental advice book, usually written by a
father to his son. It was not until the early 17th century that the
mother's advice book evolved and even then these were often
legitimated by the female authors claiming that sickness, or even
impending death, made relaying their motherly advice by a means
other than print impossible. The contents of the present volume,
ordered chronologically by the date of the first edition of each
advice book, are limited to works attributed to named mothers, even
though information about these historical women is not always
abundant. Miscellanea was the attempt of Elizabeth Grymeston to
distill advice to her only surviving. It was first published in
1604. The text reproduced here is the 1608 edition which was the
first to include the additional substantive Prayers. Even though
listings indicate there were 19 editions of The Mother's Blessing
before 1640 very little is known of Dorothy Leigh. The first
edition (1616), reproduced here, describes her as a gentle-woman,
not long deceased and her dedicatory epistle to her three sons
identifies her as a widow. Elizabeth Clinton wrote her advice book
when she had become countess-dowager. It was dedicated to her
daughter-in-law and addresses an area where she had apparently been
deficient - the imperative directed at early modern women by
domestic conduct books that mothers should nurse their own
children. The edition reproduced here is the British Library copy.
Elizabeth Brook Joceline composed her Legacy whilst awaiting the
birth of her first child, having become convinced that she would
die in childbirth. She died in 1622, nine days after the birth of a
daughter. Possibly the most poignant of the mother's advice books,
this was intended to stand in for her instructi
The dates of Mary Fage are not known, it is assumed however that
she was flourishing around 1637. Fames Roule comprises a series of
over 400 acrostic verses, each containing an anagram and each
addressed to one of the noble and powerful of Caroline England. As
such it constitutes a verbal salute to court culture. While they
may not be of great literary value, her verses are an extreme
example of the pervasive word play of her time, and their contents
afford an extended glimpse at social construction of upperclass
reality in Caroline England. Reproduced here is the copy held at
the Huntington Library.
The discovery and re-examination of women authors has been a key
part of early modern women's studies, but a major problem has been
the inaccessibility of the texts themselves. This series is
designed to make available a comprehensive collection of writing in
English from 1500 to 1700, both by women and for and about them.
Each text is preceded by a short introduction providing an overview
of the life and work of the writer, along with a survey of
important relevant scholarship. The series is in two parts,
covering the periods 1500 to 1640, and 1641 to 1700. It is
complemented by a separate facsimile series of essential works and
original monographs.
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