Title The polemics and poems of Rachel Speght / edited by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski.

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Description	1 online resource (107 pages).
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Series	Women writers in English 1350-1850
	Women writers in English 1350-1850.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	Rachel Speght (1597-?) was the first Englishwoman to identify herself as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This study discusses both her tract, "A Mouzell for Melastomus" (1617) and her volume of poetry, "Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed" (1612).
Contents	Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Textual Introduction; Selected Bibliography; A Mouzell for Melastomus; Certaine Quaeres to the Bayter of Women; Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed; Appendix: A Contemporary Response to Speght's Mouzell: Marginalia in the Yale Copy.
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Subject	Women -- Poetry.
	Women.
Genre/Form	Poetry.
Chronological Term	1600-1699
Indexed Term	English poetry
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Sources.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
Genre/Form	Poetry.
Added Author	Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, 1931-2018.
Other Form:	Print version: Speght, Rachel. Polemics and poems of Rachel Speght. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 (DLC) 95047244
ISBN	1423758625 (electronic book)
	9781423758624 (electronic book)
	1601299540
	9781601299543
	9780195086157 (paper)
	0195086155 (paper)
	0195086147 (Cloth)
	9780195086140
	0195086155 (paper)