Jane Barker (1652-1732) is recognised as one of the most important English women writers of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. This book reproduces her important early published volume, "Poetical Recreations".
Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668-1723) is an intriguing poet who wrote a great deal of poetry during a period when women poets were... Læs mere
Includes twenty short texts written by named and unnamed women in the years 1641-1700. These texts, are... Læs mere
Part of a series offering works by, for and about Englishwomen of the early-modern period, this title offers three poems (1691-93). The first laments William III's temporary departure to Holland, the other two burlesques on life at Oxford University.
"The Early Modern Englishwoman" series makes available a comprehensive and focused collection of writings in English from 1500 to 1750. This volume looks at the devotional poetry of the mysterious An Collins.