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In this introduction to the diversity and scope of the writing by women in England from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Patricia Demers discusses the creative realities of women writers' accomplishments and the cultural conditions under which they wrote. There were deep suspicions and restrictions surrounding the education of women during this period, and thus the contributions of women to literature, and to the print industry itself, are largely unknown. This wide-ranging examination of the genres of early modern women's writing embraces translation (from Latin, Greek, and French) in the fields of theological discourse, romance and classical tragedy, original meditations and prayers, letters and diaries, poetry, closet drama, advice manuals, and prophecies and polemics. A close study of six major authors - Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Tanfield Cary, Lady Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and Katherine Philips - explores their work as poets, dramatists, and romantic fiction writers. Demers invites readers to savour the subtlety and daring with which these women authors made writing an expressly social craft.

English literature --- Women and literature --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- History --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Fiction --- Thematology --- Literature --- Wroth, Mary [Lady] --- Cavendish, Margaret [Duchess of Newcastle] --- Cary, Elizabeth --- Sidney, Mary --- Lanyer, Aemilia --- Philips, Katherine --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Great Britain --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Literary genres --- Writers --- Images of women --- Book

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This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women's rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new concepts of privacy, and the ideology of domesticity in the seventeenth century. Women in both countries were briefly allowed a public voice during times of political upheaval, but were increasingly imagined as properly confined to the household by the end of the century. This book compares how English and Dutch women responded to these changes. It discusses praise of women, marriage manuals, and attitudes to female literacy, along with female artistic and literary expressions in the form of painting, engraving, embroidery, print, drama, poetry, and prose, to offer a rich account of women's contributions to debates on issues that mattered most to them. --

English literature --- Dutch literature --- History of civilization --- vrouwen --- Schurman, van, Anna Maria --- Cavendish, Margaret [Duchess of Newcastle] --- Cary, Elizabeth --- Lescaille, Cataryne --- Sidney, Mary --- Philips, Katherine --- Veer, van der, Cornelia --- Visscher, Anna Roemers --- anno 1600-1699 --- England --- Netherlands --- Women authors, Dutch --- Women authors, English --- Women --- Criticism and interpretation --- Social conditions --- Literature, Modern. --- European literature. --- British literature. --- Europe-History-1492-. --- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. --- European Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- European literature --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Europe—History—1492-.