| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 421 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"This collection resurrects an extraordinary array of women's writings from the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth centuries. The focus of English Women Voices is not on females writing "literature" but on the actual lives of women, as described in their own words. The work is organized around such themes as health care, religion, politics, marriage, and education, an approach that cuts across genre and chronology and shows the significant contributions of women to their culture. Recorded in diaries, letters, sermons, pamphlets, formal petitions, health manuals, trial records, biographies, and autobiographies, the words escape from the past, as vital as current events. The opening section, "Women Testifying to Abuse," candidly describes aspects of female life that even today often remain secret. The final section, which records the voices of women preaching, will touch a nerve in women who still struggle for the right to be heard from the pulpit. Each section begins with an introduction that situates the writing in its historical context; each introduction has a suggested-readings list that opens the subject to further research." "Burdened by what were perceived as the metaphysical, moral, and physiological limitations of women, the authors of these writings were enjoined to silence. Though sometimes published in their own day, the works were subsequently interred in research libraries or on microfilm. Vibrant with personal concerns, these voices will pierce the consciousness of twentieth-century readers and contribute to scholarship in literature and history courses and in all aspects of gender studies."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Diary -- A part of the life -- A brief description of the notorious life of J. Lamb -- The trial and condemnation of Mervin Lord Audley -- A vindication -- Autobiography -- The life, death, actions, and words upon the scaffold -- Report and plea -- Once more a warning to thee o England -- An account of the travels, sufferings, and persecutions -- A true copy of the petition -- England's fall from (the mystical Babylon) Rome -- The humble petition -- Love's name lives. Petitions and letters -- In pursuit of the king -- To Oliver Cromwell and his privy council -- The case between a father and his children -- Letters of love and gallantry -- Autobiography -- Diary -- The mothers blessing -- A choice manuall, or rare and select secrets in physick -- Diary -- Autobiography -- Medicatrix, or the woman physician -- The midwives book -- To Dr.____ an answer to his queries concerning the college of midwives -- The countess of Lincoln's nursery -- Upon the sight of my abortive birth -- Autobiography -- Diary -- A narrative of God's gracious dealings -- Living testimonies concerning the death of the righteous -- The work of God in a dying maid -- Death of a queen -- Miscelanea, meditations, memoratives -- A ladies legacy to her daughters -- The Harcourt papers -- Some of the letters and papers -- The private diary -- The meditations -- Heaven realized -- Confessiones amantis -- Womens speaking justified -- Epistle from the woman's yearly meeting at York and an epistle by Mary Waite -- An epistle for true love, unity, and order in the church of Christ. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- Women authors.
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English literature -- Women authors. |
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Women -- England -- Literary collections.
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Women. |
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England. |
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Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Autobiography -- Women authors. |
| Chronological Term |
1450-1700 |
| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Sources.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Otten, Charlotte F.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: English women's voices, 1540-1700. Miami : Florida International University Press, ©1992 0813010837 (DLC) 91016313 (OCoLC)23731768 |
| ISBN |
0813020107 (electronic book) |
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9780813020105 (electronic book) |
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0813010837 (acid-free paper) |
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0813010993 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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