Early Modern Women's Writing: An Anthology 1560-1700 (Oxford World's Classics)

This anthology is a unique collection of rare women's writing written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This collection introduces modern readers to the various examples of the work of women writers from these centuries and includes poems, prose and fiction, drama, letters, prophecies, tracts and philosophy. The collection begins with the poetry of Isabella Whitney, who worked in a gentlewoman's household in London in the late 1560s, and ends with Aphra Behn, who was employed as a spy in Amsterdam by Charles II. Also collected here are examples of ten other women writers, allowing the reader to sample the diverse and lively output of all classes and opinions, from aristocrats Mary Wroth, Anne Clifford, and Margaret Cavendish to women of obscure background caught up in the religious ferment of the mid-seventeenth century like Hester Biddle, Priscilla Cotton, and Mary Cole. The collection offers readers the possibility of tracing patterns through the works as well as a sense of historical shift and change. Each text is newly edited from its original source and includes comprehensive notes, both explanatory and textual.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

• A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing
• The Blazing World and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
• The Faerie Queene
• The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer: Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)
• The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or The Fox; Epicene, or The Silent Woman; The Alchemist; Bartholomew Fair (Oxford World's Classics)
• The Poems: Venus And Adonis, The Rape Of Lucrece, The Phoenix And The Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
• Plays on women: Anon, Arden of Faver (Revels Student Editions MUP)
• Othello and The Tragedy of Mariam
• Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Amelia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets
• The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics)