This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women's experiences of authorship. Feminist critics have frequently been uncomf

Scholars of religious, literary, and cultural history will enjoy this illuminating collection.

Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historicall

This landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century. It is the first book to d

A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is