Women Writers of the 17th Century

During the 17th century the creative outpourings of European women increased dramatically as they began to address -- through poems, plays, letters, & prose fiction -- the subject of women s condition & potential. This anthology presents the works of 19 authors from France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, & Hungary. Includes: Aphra Behn, the first woman to earn her living by her pen, a dramatist, lyric poet, & a founder of the English novel; Ludamilia Elisabeth von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, whose verse contributed to the formation of the religious vernacular in Germ.; & Mme de Sevigne, the most prolific epistolary writer of the age.