Early modern women on the fall : an anthology

Folger bibliographic ID: 266096
Folger call number: PR1110.W6 E45 2012
Folger holdings ID: 351965
Accession Number: 222911

General notes

Includes bibliographical references

Contents

Introduction: Adam's rib, Eve's voice / Michelle M. Dowd and Thomas Festa -- "To the virtuous reader" (1611) and "Eve's apology" from Salve deus rex judaeorum (1611) / Aemilia Lanyer -- Selections from The mother's blessing (1616) / Dorothy Leigh -- A muzzle for Melastomus (1617) / Rachel Speght -- Selections from Esther hath hanged Haman (1617) / Esther Sowerman -- "A defense of women" (1617) / Joan Sharp -- The countess of Lincoln's nursery (1622) / Elizabeth Clinton -- "All married men desire to have good wives" (1626 and "An elegy written by the Lady A. S. to the Countess of Londonderry" (1626) / Lady Anne Southwell -- "Of our loss by Adam, and our gain by Christ" from Meditations of man's mortality, or a way to true blessedness (1634) / Alice Sutcliffe -- "Poets have most pleasure in this life" from Poems and fancies (1653) / Margaret Cavendish -- "To Antenor, on a paper of mine" from Poems (1667) / Katherine Philips -- "The creation of man" from The sacred history (1669) and "Man's shameful fall" from The sacred history (1669) / Mary Roper -- "A description of the Garden of Eden (1672-1684) / Dorothy Calthorpe -- An essay to revive the ancient education of gentlewomen (1673) / Bathsua Makin -- Order and disorder, cantos 1-5 (1679) / Lucy Hutchinson -- The female advocate (1687) / Sarah Fyge -- "A farewell to poetry, with a long digression on anatomy" (1688) / Jane Barker -- A serious proposal to the ladies (1694) / Mary Astell -- The ladies' defense (1701) / Lady Mary Chudleigh

Extended title: Early modern women on the fall : an anthology / edited by Michelle M. Dowd and Thomas Festa

English literature Fall of man Women

associated with: Dowd, Michelle M., 1975-
associated with: Festa, Thomas