Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700

Helen Wilcox

Original title: Women and literature in Britain, 1500-1700

earliest edition we have, 1996 Cambridge University Press, 2009

This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a period when it was considered unfeminine to write and yet women were the authors of many poems, translations, conduct books, autobiographies, plays, pamphlets and other texts. Drawing together the pioneering work of feminist literary critics and historians, this survey examines ways in which the i...

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Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700 edition · 2011 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511885518
Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700 edition · 2009 · Cambridge University Press · 9780511470363
Women and literature in Britain, 1500-1700 edition · 1996 · Cambridge University Press · 307 pages

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