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Product Description: Margaret Cavendish was one of the most prolific, complex and misunderstood writers of the seventeenth century. A contemporary of Descartes and Hobbes, she was fascinared by philosophical, scientific and imaginitive advances, and struggled to overcome the political and cultural obstacles which threatened to stop her engagement with such discourses...read more

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9780719060724 | Manchester Univ Pr, March 4, 2004, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Margaret Cavendish was one of the most prolific, complex and misunderstood writers of the seventeenth century.

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9780719099328 | Reprint edition (Manchester Univ Pr, August 1, 2015), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Margaret Cavendish was one of the most prolific, complex and misunderstood writers of the seventeenth century.

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By Andrew Strycharski (editor)

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9781137479624 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 4, 2015, cover price $95.00

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Product Description: Aphra Behn (1640–1689) and Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) were two of the boldest women authors of seventeenthcentury England. They made gestures toward a utopian future involving female emancipation and gender agreement, but depicted a world too complex for simple answers...read more

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9780815633129, titled "Utopian Negotiation: Aphra Behn & Margaret Cavendish" | Syracuse Univ Pr, November 30, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Aphra Behn (1640–1689) and Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) were two of the boldest women authors of seventeenthcentury England.

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Product Description: Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas explores how women in England participated in the considerable intellectual and cultural diversity which characterised the 'late' early modern period, from the mid-seventeenth century to the early eighteenth century...read more
By Jo Wallwork (editor)

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9781409419693 | Ashgate Pub Co, March 1, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Early Modern Englishwomen Testing Ideas explores how women in England participated in the considerable intellectual and cultural diversity which characterised the 'late' early modern period, from the mid-seventeenth century to the early eighteenth century.

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Product Description: Although Milton's contempt for women has been accepted since Samuel Johnson's famous life of the poet, critics continue to debate whether Milton's writings are anti- or pro-feminine, a problem further complicated by his advocacy of "divorce on demand" for men...read more

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9780521841306 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 14, 2005, cover price $99.99

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9780521123709 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 7, 2010), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Although Milton's contempt for women has been accepted since Samuel Johnson's famous life of the poet, critics continue to debate whether Milton's writings are anti- or pro-feminine, a problem further complicated by his advocacy of "divorce on demand" for men.

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9780521867641 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 28, 2008), cover price $99.99

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9780521121767 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 29, 2009), cover price $44.99

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9780521471695 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $99.99

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Product Description: Despite her fascinating life and her importance as a writer, until now Lady Mary Wroth has never been the subject of a full-length biography. Margaret Hannay's reliance on primary sources results in some corrections, as well as additions, to our knowledge of Wroth's life, including Hannay's discovery of the career of her son William, the marriages of her daughter Katherine, her grandchildren, her last years, the date of her death, and the subsequent history of her manuscripts...read more

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9780754660538 | Ashgate Pub Co, May 16, 2010, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Despite her fascinating life and her importance as a writer, until now Lady Mary Wroth has never been the subject of a full-length biography.

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9780754699651 | Ashgate Pub Co, January 5, 2010, cover price $99.95

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Product Description: Aemilia Lanyer was a Londoner of Jewish-Italian descent and the mistress of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain. But in 1611 she did something extraordinary for a middle-class woman of the seventeenth century: she published a volume of original poems...read more
By Marshall Grossman (editor)

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9780813120492 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, June 24, 1998, cover price $45.00

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9780813192666 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, November 1, 2009, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Aemilia Lanyer was a Londoner of Jewish-Italian descent and the mistress of Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chamberlain.

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Product Description: Contemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house. In her innovative revisionist study Margaret Ezell examines this modern model of domestic patriarchalism in seventeenth-century England and finds it oversimplified and misleading...read more

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9780807817414 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, August 1, 1987, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Contemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house.

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9780807865378 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, July 1, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Contemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house.

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Product Description: This is the first book to study the work and influence of Elizabeth Cary, author of the first original play by a woman to be printed in English, The Tragedyie of Mariam (1613). Previous criticism focused concentrated on this and The History of Edward II , this volume incorporates critical and historical analyses of other genres too...read more
By Heather Wolfe (editor)

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9781403970169 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 26, 2006, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This is the first book to study the work and influence of Elizabeth Cary, author of the first original play by a woman to be printed in English, The Tragedyie of Mariam (1613).

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Rhetoric, Women and Politics aims to transform the study of Renaissance rhetoric by redefining the relationship between gender, politics and the art of speaking. It is essential reading for students and scholars of early modern literature, drama and culture.
By Jennifer Richards (editor) and Alison Thorne (editor)

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9780415385268 | Routledge, November 1, 2006, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Rhetoric, Women and Politics aims to transform the study of Renaissance rhetoric by redefining the relationship between gender, politics and the art of speaking.

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9780415385275 | Routledge, February 28, 2007, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Rhetoric, Women and Politics aims to transform the study of Renaissance rhetoric by redefining the relationship between gender, politics and the art of speaking.

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9780203965900 | Routledge, January 9, 2007, cover price $35.95

A fascinating critical study of the work of Aphra Behn, probably the most inventive and original woman writer of the 17th century.

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9780746309650 | 2 edition (Northcote House Pub Ltd, December 15, 2006), cover price $19.95
9780746307090 | Northcote House Pub Ltd, September 1, 1996, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A fascinating critical study of the work of Aphra Behn, probably the most inventive and original woman writer of the 17th century.

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Product Description: Celia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism in early modern English drama, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central. Accounting for the significance of the space offstage, where most sexual acts take place, Daileader looks to the suppression of religious drama in England and the resulting secularization of the stage...read more

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9780521623797 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $139.99

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9780521034678 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 14, 2006), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: Celia Daileader explores the paradoxes of eroticism in early modern English drama, where women and their bodies (represented by boy actors) were materially absent and yet symbolically central.

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Product Description: This is a groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection makes the texts of three much-discussed plays--John Fletcher's "The Wild-Goose Chase," James Shirley's "The Bird in a Cage," and Margaret Cavendish's "The Convent of Pleasure"--available together in a full scholarly edition for the first time...read more
By Hero Chalmers (editor), Julie Sanders (editor) and Sophie Tomlinson (editor)

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9780719063381 | Manchester Univ Pr, September 19, 2006, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: This is a groundbreaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance.

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Product Description: Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early modern England in which they originated to the contemporary Western world in which our own encounters with them are staged...read more

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9780198711988 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 4, 2005, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early modern England in which they originated to the contemporary Western world in which our own encounters with them are staged.

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9780198186946 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 4, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early modern England in which they originated to the contemporary Western world in which our own encounters with them are staged.

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'A selection of seventeenth century pamphlets revealing the popular press's obsessive concern with female violence--usually domestic--and a discussion of the texts' historical and cultural contexts'--Provided by publisher.

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9780820703565 | Duquesne Univ Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: 'A selection of seventeenth century pamphlets revealing the popular press's obsessive concern with female violence--usually domestic--and a discussion of the texts' historical and cultural contexts'--Provided by publisher.

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