Early Modern Women's Manuscript PoetryJill Seal Millman, Gillian Wrigth Early modern women's manuscript poetry is an anthology of texts by fourteen women poets writing between 1589 and 1706. It is the only currently available anthology of early modern women's writing which focuses exclusively on manuscript material. Authors include Mary Sidney, Lucy Hutchinson and Katherine Philips; central figures in the emerging canon of early modern women writers, but whose work appears in a fresh and very different light in the manuscript context emphasised by this anthology. The volume also includes substantial excerpts from a recently discovered verse paraphrase of Genesis, thought to be by the previously unknown seventeenth-century writer Mary Roper, as well as selections from the unjustly neglected poet, Hester Pulter. |
Contents
British Library Additional MS 10037 | 15 |
Mary Sidneys psalm paraphrases | 21 |
Lady Mary Wroth Pamphilia to Amphilanthus | 35 |
Anne Southwells poetry | 57 |
Anna Leys posthumously collected writings | 77 |
Presentation volume of Jane Cavendishs poetry | 87 |
Lucy Hutchinsons Elegies | 97 |
Hester Pulters Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas | 111 |
Leeds University Library Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 2 | 153 |
Julia Palmers Centuries of devotional verse | 169 |
Mary Astells presentation manuscript for Archbishop Sancroft | 182 |
Marie Burghopes country house poem The Vision | 194 |
Octavia Walshs verse miscellany | 215 |
Interpretative notes229 | 229 |
Select bibliography269 | 269 |
Presentation volume of Katherine Philipss verse | 128 |
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References to this book
The Martin Marprelate Tracts: A Modernized and Annotated Edition Martin Marprelate Limited preview - 2008 |