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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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"In this, Hannah More's only novel and an early nineteenth-century best-seller, More gives voice to a wealthy twenty-three-year-old bachelor, who styles himself "Coelebs" (unmarried), but seeks a wife. After the death of his father, Coelebs journeys from the north of England to London, where he encounters a fashionable array of eager mothers and daughters before he visits the Hampshire home of his father's friend, Mr. Stanley. Lucilla Stanley, Mr. Stanley's daughter, is both an intellectual and a domestic woman, and Coelebs' ideal partner. In this novel about the meeting of two minds, More shows the ways in which a couple become truly "matched" as opposed to merely "joined." "Along with a critical introduction, this Broadview edition includes a wide selection of historical documents, from reviews, imitations, and sequels of Coelebs in Search of a Wife to related contemporary writings on conduct, courtship, and women's education."--Jacket.

Conduct of life --- Conduct of life. --- Englisch. --- Mate selection --- Mate selection. --- Partnersuche. --- Roman.

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Demers revives the memory of journalist Miriam Green Ellis, an all-but-forgotten feminist, suffragist, and agricultural reporter who documented the modernist sphere for over four decades and who refused to be confined to the "women's pages." With written material from the University of Alberta's Miriam Green Ellis Collection, accompanied by an excellent selection of photographs, Ellis's inimitable voice and views on Albertans, westerners, and Canadians in the early decades of the twentieth century emerge clearly. Readers interested in Canadian women studies, journalism, or feminism will find Ellis's highly coloured perspective both entertaining and informative.

Women journalists --- Feminists --- Feminism --- Social reformers --- Women as journalists --- Journalists --- Women authors --- Women in journalism --- Women in the mass media industry --- Ellis, Miriam Green, --- Alberta --- Canada, Western --- Social conditions --- Canadian Northwest --- West (Canada) --- Western Canada --- Northwest, Canadian --- Government of Alberta --- Biography. --- Feminism. --- Journalism. --- Social History. --- Women Studies.