This book contains the first comprehensive account of writing by women from the mid sixteenth century through to 1700. At the same time, it traces the way a rep

Ideal for courses, this Companion examines the range, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain, 1500-1700.

By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected he

Much has been written about women of the English Renaissance, but few examples of women's writing from that era have been readily available until now. This rema

The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the develo