Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700): An AnthologyJane Stevenson, Peter Davidson Early Modern Women Poets represents a complete reexamination of the field, based on extensive archival research in manuscripts and early modern printed books. While it contains lavish selections from important poets such as Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips, and Aemilia Lanyer, almost half of the material included is previously unpublished and uncollected. It aims to introduce the reader to a conspectus of the verse written by women from c.1520 to 1700, at all social levels from the verse of court elite to working-class women's aphorisms, libels, and charms. All genres of verse used by early modern women are represented; as are all languages in which women's verse survives: Classical Greek and Latin, French, Italian, English, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, and Irish. Each woman's work is accompanied by a headnote which combines biographic information with some guidance as to the context, intended audience, and genre of her work. The collection is organized chronologically. It should be possible, as never before, to see what early modern women wrote, how they wrote it, who they wrote for, and what they said. |
Contents
Introduction | xxix |
ALIA | 1 |
LADY MARGARET HOWARD née STEWART later | 7 |
ALIS FERCH GRUFFYD AB IEUAN AP LLEYWELYN | 13 |
LADY ELIZABETH TYRWHIT fl c 15481582 | 17 |
FRANCES NEVILL née MANNERS LADY ABERGAVENNY | 24 |
ANN LOK née VAUGHAN later DERING PROWSE | 30 |
ANNE DUDLEY née SEYMOUR later UNTON with | 39 |
MARGARET CAVENDISH née LUCAS DUCHESS | 301 |
MARY CAREY née JACKSON later PAYLER fl 164380 | 309 |
ELIZABETH EGERTON née CAVENDISH LADY ELIZABETH | 316 |
KATHERINE PHILIPS née FOWLER 16321664 | 325 |
A LADY KATHERINE PHILIPS? | 333 |
FRANCELLINA STAPLETON fl 1655 | 340 |
MARTHA LADY GIFFARD née TEMPLE 16381722 | 344 |
191 | 356 |
ISABELLA WHITNEY c 1540after 1580 | 48 |
KATHERINE DOWE fl before 1588 | 61 |
ANONYMOUS before 1568 | 70 |
NIGHEAN DHONNCHADH THE DAUGHTER OF DUNCAN | 71 |
21 | 76 |
43 | 77 |
ANNE FIELD née VAVASOUR later RICHARDSON | 78 |
MARGARET CLIFFORD COUNTESS OF CUMBERLAND | 84 |
22 | 88 |
ELIZABETH LADY TANFIELD née SYMONDES | 95 |
33 | 98 |
24 | 108 |
ANNE DOWRICHE née EDGCUMBE fl 15891596 | 109 |
JANE SEAGER fl 1589 | 115 |
MARTHA PRYNNE née DORSETT later THROUGOOD | 126 |
ELIZABETH CARY née TANFIELD COUNTESS | 143 |
ISOBEL BEAUMONT with JOHN COLEMAN a servant | 152 |
ELEANOR DAVIES née TOUCHET later DOUGLAS LADY | 160 |
ANONYMOUS redacted by JENNET DEVICE fl 1612 | 168 |
ANONYMOUS GENTLEWOMAN early 1600s | 169 |
BAPTINA CROMWELL née PALAVICINO 159581618 | 178 |
ELIZABETH BANCKES AND GEORGE JAMES 1616 | 195 |
CONSTANTIA MUNDA fl 1617 | 196 |
225 | 204 |
MRS BOUGHTON c 1600after 1650 | 207 |
ALICE SUTCLIFFE née WOODHOWS fl 1620s1630s | 215 |
170000 | 222 |
JANE HAWKINS fl 1629 | 226 |
29 | 228 |
ANNE BRADSTREET née DUDLEY 16131672 | 232 |
33333 | 235 |
LUCY HASTINGS née DAVIES COUNTESS | 246 |
GERTRUDE THIMELBY née ASTON c 1615c 1670 | 254 |
KATHERINE ASTON née THIMELBY c 1620s1650s | 259 |
SEONAID CHAIMBEUL JANET CAMPBELL c 1645 | 267 |
LUCY HUTCHINSON née APSLEY 1620after 1662 | 276 |
AN ANONYMOUS WOMAN OF THE CLAN CAMPBELL | 282 |
FRANCES DOROTHY FEILDING née LANE later JAMES | 284 |
JANE CHEYNE née LADY JANE CAVENDISH 16211669 | 290 |
47 | 357 |
ANONYMOUS BENEDICTINE NUN OF CAMBRAI | 358 |
195 | 362 |
APHRA BEHN née JOHNSON ?16401689 | 364 |
JANE SOWLE fl 1680 | 391 |
DOROTHY WHITE 16301685 | 397 |
FRANCES BOOTHBY fl 166970 | 407 |
Esuriens agnis quantum concedet in agris | 413 |
MAREY WALLER later MORE fl 1674 | 419 |
KATHERINE COL YEAR COUNTESS OF DORCHESTER | 427 |
8 8 | 435 |
MARY LADY CHUDLEIGH née LEE 16561710 | 439 |
DAMARIS LADY MASHAM née CUDWORTH 16591708 | 446 |
ANNE KILLIGREW 16601685 | 452 |
ELIZABETH BRADFORD née SOWLE 1663?1731 | 464 |
LADY WYTHENS née ELIZABETH TAYLOR later | 470 |
BARBARA MACKAY LADY SCOURIE fl 1660s70s | 471 |
LADY GRISELL BAILLIE née HUME 16651746 | 480 |
ALICIA DANVERS née CLARKE 16681725 | 486 |
CLEONE fl 1688 | 492 |
79 | 500 |
DELARIVIÈRE MANLEY c 167081724 | 501 |
LADY SARAH PIERS née ROYDON c 1670before 1720 | 504 |
80 | 507 |
ELIZABETH TIPPER fl 16938 | 511 |
ANGHARAD PRITCHARD née JAMES 16771749 | 520 |
AMEY HAYWARD fl 1699 | 528 |
ANN MERRYWEATHER d after 1702 | 534 |
48 | 538 |
CATRIN FERCH GRUFFYDD AB IEUAN AP LLYWELYN | 540 |
68 | 544 |
MARGARET LADY GODOLPHIN née BLAGGE 16521678 | 559 |
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576 | |
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582 | |
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