The Carleton Bigamy Trial

Mary Carleton

• Paperback | Engels | Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto
• Multiple conflicting perspectives come together in this collection to provide a Rashomon -style account of marriage, fraud, and trickery in seventeent... Lees meer

A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations

Lady Anne Halkett

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• The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray) grew up on the fringes of the English c... Lees meer

The Wealth of Wives

Francesco Barbaro

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• In 1415, Francesco Barbaro produced a marriage manual intended at once for his friend, a scion of the Florentine Medici family, and for the whole set ... Lees meer

A Mother's Spiritual Dialogue, Meditations, and Elegies

Mary Carey

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• Key insights into women's multi-dimensional roles as wives, widows, and mothers during the seventeenth century. Lady Mary Carey (c. 1609-c. 1680) was ... Lees meer

The Wretch, Otherwise Known as Guerrino

Tullia D'Aragona

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• The only English translation of the first epic poem to be authored by an Italian woman. This is an unabridged bilingual, fully annotated edition of Tu... Lees meer

Dramatic Proverbs

Marquise de Maintenon

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• This translated edition of Madame de Maintenon's school plays showcases their emphasis on the importance of girls' self-reliance and resilience in an ... Lees meer

At the Crossroads of the Scientific Revolution

Martine de Bertereau, Marie Meurdrac

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• The first translation of the works of early modern French woman scientists Martine de Bertereau and Marie Meurdrac. The writings of mineralogist and h... Lees meer

The Devonshire Manuscript

Lady Margaret Douglas

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• This is an essential volume, and there's no scholar better equipped to edit it than Elizabeth Heale, whose expertise on early women's writing in manus... Lees meer

The Prophetess and the Patriarch

Elizabeth Poole

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• Published for the first time in full, a common woman's writings reveal the startling role she played in England's revolt against the monarchy. In 1649... Lees meer

Far from Home in Early Modern France

Marie Guyart de l'Incarnation, Anne-Marie Fiquet Du Boccage, Henriette-Lucie Dillon de la Tour Du Pin

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• An engaging account of women's travels in the early modern period. This book showcases three Frenchwomen who ventured far from home at a time when suc... Lees meer

Women's Speaking Justified and Other Pamphlets

Margaret Fell

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• Margaret Fell (1614-1702), one of the co-founders of the Society of Friends and a religious activist, was a prolific writer and distributor of Quaker ... Lees meer

In Dialogue with the Other Voice in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Julie D. Campbell, Maria Galli Stampino

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• This excellent collection of essays and texts surveys the culture and intellectual context of early modern Italy in order to render more intelligible ... Lees meer

Two Lives of Saint Colette

Pierre de Vaux, Sister Perrine de Baume

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• Two accounts of the life of Saint Colette of Corbie. Saint Colette of Corbie (1381-1447) was a French reformer of the Franciscan Order and the founder... Lees meer

Selected Drama and Verse

Franciszka Urszula Radziwillowa

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• This edition presents, for the first time in English, a selection from the repertoire of the first Polish woman dramatist, Princess Franciszka Urszula... Lees meer

A Mother's Manual for the Women of Ferrara

Michele Savonarola

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• The first treatise of its kind to be written in a European vernacular. Around 1460, Michele Savonarola produced the extraordinary Mother's Manual for ... Lees meer

Beauty and the Beast

Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve

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• Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, the little-known author of Beauty and the Beast , was a successful novelist and fairytale writer in mid eighte... Lees meer

Poems by a Sixteenth-Century Gentlewoman, Maid, and Servant

Isabella Whitney

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• A collection of poems by the first English woman to publish secular poetry under her own name. Isabella Whitney (c. 1547-after 1624) was the first Eng... Lees meer

Shadow Puppets, Songs, and Sacred Feasts

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• The two eighteenth-century texts translated here offer a rare glimpse into the creative lives of cloistered nuns in Asia, providing a valuable example... Lees meer

The Pleasant Nights

Giovan Straparola

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• In Giovan Francesco Straparola's The Pleasant Nights , a group of men and women gather together in a villa on the Venetian island of Murano during Car... Lees meer

News from the Midell Regions and Calthorpe's Chapel

Dorothy Calthorpe

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• An introduction to a new early modern woman writer that makes her manuscripts available in print for the first time. This first print edition of two e... Lees meer

Letters

Isabella Andreini

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• A collection of inventive writings in letter form from a sixteenth-century star of commedia dell'arte. Isabella Andreini (1562-1604) was a commedia de... Lees meer

Lovers' Debates for the Stage

Isabella Andreini

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• Witty and dynamic lovers' dialogues for the stage. The actress and author Isabella Andreini won international renown playing the bold, versatile, and ... Lees meer

The Book of the Body Politic

Christine De Pizan

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• The first political treatise written by a woman. Christine de Pizan's The Book of the Body Politic is the first political treatise written by a woman.... Lees meer

Selected Letters, 1514-1543

Maria Salviati De' Medici

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• The voluminous correspondence of Maria Salviati de' Medici. In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in Maria Salviati de' Medici, speci... Lees meer