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9780684160313 | Scribner, February 1, 1979, cover price $3.95

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Analyzes the roles of both strong-minded and antagonistic women in the plays of seventeenth-century English authors including Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Dekker

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9780312021559 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 1982, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the roles of both strong-minded and antagonistic women in the plays of seventeenth-century English authors including Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Dekker

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Product Description: In this fascinating survey of women's writing between 1649-88, Elaine Hobby draws on the extraordinary range of genres in which women expressed themselves: petitions, prophecies and religious writings, autobiography and biography, fiction, plays, poetry, and books on housewifery, medicine, midwifery, and education...read more

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9780472101252, titled "Virtue of Necessity: English Women's Writing 1649-88" | Univ of Michigan Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A survey of the genres by which 17th-century women expressed themselves.

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9780472080984, titled "Virtue of Necessity: English Women's Writing, 1649-88" | Univ of Michigan Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In this fascinating survey of women's writing between 1649-88, Elaine Hobby draws on the extraordinary range of genres in which women expressed themselves: petitions, prophecies and religious writings, autobiography and biography, fiction, plays, poetry, and books on housewifery, medicine, midwifery, and education.

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Product Description: Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare.

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9780231070621 | Reissue edition (Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1989), cover price $84.00

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9780231070638 | Reissue edition (Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1989), cover price $28.50 | About this edition: Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare.

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Product Description: By examining representations of women on stage and in the many printed materials aimed at them, Karen Newman shows how female subjectivity—both the construction of the gendered subject and the ideology of women's subjection to men—was fashioned in Elizabethan and Jacobean England...read more

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9780226577081 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: By examining representations of women on stage and in the many printed materials aimed at them, Karen Newman shows how female subjectivity—both the construction of the gendered subject and the ideology of women's subjection to men—was fashioned in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

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9780226577098 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: By examining representations of women on stage and in the many printed materials aimed at them, Karen Newman shows how female subjectivity—both the construction of the gendered subject and the ideology of women's subjection to men—was fashioned in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

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9780870497094 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $42.00

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9780870497100 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Book by

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9780252018824 | Univ of Illinois Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $34.95

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9780252062384 | Univ of Illinois Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $17.95

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Product Description: This collection of original essays examines the dichotomy between the public and private worlds of women from the early Renaissance to the 1650s. The essays are arranged to highlight the movement from the private, Elizabethan woman to her more public, Carolingean counterpart...read more

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9780814324264 | Wayne State Univ Pr, June 1, 1992, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This collection of original essays examines the dichotomy between the public and private worlds of women from the early Renaissance to the 1650s.

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Product Description: When was feminism born - in the 1960s, or in the 1660s? For England, the answer might be the early decades of the 17th century. James I was King of England, and women were expected to be chaste, obedient, subordinate and silent. Some, however, were not, and these are the women who interest Barbara Lewalski, those who, as petitioners and patrons, historians and poets took up the pen to challenge and subvert the repressive patriarchal ideology of Jacobean England...read more

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9780674962422 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $64.50 | About this edition: When was feminism born - in the 1960s or in the 1660s?

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9780674962439 | Harvard Univ Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: When was feminism born - in the 1960s, or in the 1660s?

Product Description: Ever since Virginia Woolf proclaimed that all women writers should place flowers on her grave, Aphra Behn has slowly become recognized as the first Englishwoman to earn her living by writing. During the 17th century, Behn wrote prodigiously and in varied genres - drama, poetry, novels, essays and translations...read more
By Heidi Hutner (editor)

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9780813914428 | Univ of Virginia Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Ever since Virginia Woolf proclaimed that all women writers should place flowers on her grave, Aphra Behn has slowly become recognized as the first Englishwoman to earn her living by writing.

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9780813914435 | Univ of Virginia Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Ever since Virginia Woolf proclaimed that all women writers should place flowers on her grave, Aphra Behn has slowly become recognized as the first Englishwoman to earn her living by writing.

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Product Description: The first edition of the collected poetry and prose of the Restoration feminist, Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710), this volume includes The Ladies Defense as well as her final prose meditations. New biographical and bibliographical information in the Introduction revises the existing accounts of her life and literary career...read more

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9780195078749 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 30, 1993, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The first edition of the collected poetry and prose of the Restoration feminist, Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710), this volume includes The Ladies Defense as well as her final prose meditations.

Product Description: What did it mean to be published at the end of the sixteenth century? While in polite circles gentlemen exchanged handwritten letters, published authors risked association with the low-born masses. Examining a wide range of published material including sonnets, pageants, prefaces, narrative poems, and title pages, Wendy Wall considers how the idea of authorship was shaped by the complex social controversies generated by publication during the English Renaissance...read more

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9780801427657 | Cornell Univ Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: What did it mean to be published at the end of the sixteenth century?

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9780801480478 | Cornell Univ Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $31.50

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Product Description: William Herbert (1580-1630), third earl of Pembroke, and Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1653) were first cousins, the nephew and niece of Sir Philip Sidney, whose family was one of remarkable literary and political importance. Herbert was a poet, a voluminous letter writer, and one of the Jacobean court's richest and most powerful courtiers and politicians...read more

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9780814324363 | Wayne State Univ Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: William Herbert (1580-1630), third earl of Pembroke, and Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1653) were first cousins, the nephew and niece of Sir Philip Sidney, whose family was one of remarkable literary and political importance.

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Product Description: This book is a full-scale study of the critical significance, place in English literature, and possible interest for modern readers of the poems of Anne Finch, the Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720).

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9780874134698 | Univ of Delaware Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $42.50 | About this edition: This book is a full-scale study of the critical significance, place in English literature, and possible interest for modern readers of the poems of Anne Finch, the Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720).

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By Mary Carleton (editor), Elizabeth Spearing (editor) and Janet Todd (editor)

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9780814782149 | New York Univ Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $85.00

Product Description: This text examines the various treatments of the myth of the rape of Lucretia in Renaissance England. The first section deals with Shakespeare's narrative poem "Lucrece", while the second analyzes representations of the story on the contemporary stage, including Heywood's play and other material...read more

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9780773442207 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: This text examines the various treatments of the myth of the rape of Lucretia in Renaissance England.

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