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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 [female humans]

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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-.