The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women (The Early Modern ... Essential Works Essential Works Series III)

"The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works" is designed to make available a comprehensive and focused collection of writings from 1500 to 1750, both by women and for and about them. The titles in this series (Series III, Part Three) form part of the "Printed Writings from 1641-1700". Reprinting these writings remedies one of the major obstacles to the advancement of feminist criticism of the early modern period, namely the unavailability of the very texts upon which the field is based. The volumes in the facsimile library reproduce carefully chosen copies of these texts, incorporating a short introduction providing an overview of the life and work of a writer along with a survey of important scholarship.