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This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a period when it was considered unfeminine to write and yet women were the authors of many poems, translations, conduct books, autobiographies, plays, pamphlets and other texts. Drawing together the pioneering work of feminist literary critics and historians, this survey examines ways in which the idea of woman was constructed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and women's role in and access to literary culture. It also focuses on women writers and their output across the spectrum of genres from courtly romance to Quaker prophecy. A unique chronology offers a woman-centred perspective on historical and literary events, and there is a guide to further reading. Women and Literature in Britain, 1500?1700 explores the history of women's part in the development of literary culture, while revealing how paradoxical that history can be.

First comprehensive introduction to women's role in, and access to, literary culture in early modern Britain.

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Chronology: Women and literature in Britain, 1500-1700; Introduction Helen Wilcox	
Part I	Constructing Women in Early Modern Britain	
1	    Humanist education and the Renaissance concept of women   Hilda L. Smith	
2	    Religion and the construction of femininity   Suzanne Trill	
3	    Advice for women from mothers and patriarchs   Valerie Wayne	
4	    Women reading, reading women   Jacqueline Pearson	
5	    Women/''women'' and the stage   Ann Thompson	
6	    Feminine modes of knowing and scientific enquiry   Bronwen Price	
Part II	Writing Women in Early Modern Britian	
7	    Renaissance concepts of the ''woman writer''   Margaret W. Ferguson	
8	    Courtly writing by women   Helen Hackett	
9	    Women''s poetry in early modern Britain   Elizabeth H. Hageman	
10	    Women''s writing and the self   Elspeth Graham	
11	    The possibilities of prose Betty   S. Travitsky	
12	    The first female dramatists   Ros Ballaster	
Further reading