Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historicall
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
Offering a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing, the essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures across Italy, France,