This volume includes two early seventeenth-century translations of Roman Catholic books by English recusant nuns - Catherine Greenbury (a Francisan) and Mary Percy (a Benedictine) both of whom fled Elizabethan England to live in convents established in Brussels.
The "Early Modern Englishwoman" series makes available a comprehensive and focused collection of writings in English from 1500 to 1750. Each book in the series is by women and for and about them.