This book contains the first comprehensive account of writing by women from the mid sixteenth century through to 1700. At the same time, it traces the way a rep

Much has been written about women of the English Renaissance, but few examples of women's writing from that era have been readily available until now. This rema

This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.

Ideal for courses, this Companion examines the range, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain, 1500-1700.

An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendere