Books by Robert C. Evans

Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668-1723) is an intriguing poet who wrote a great deal of poetry during a period when women poets were relatively rare. "The Female Advocate" is perhaps her most famous single work. Alongside "The Female Advocate", this volume includes Egerton's "Poems on Several Occasions, Together with a Pastoral".

Jane Barker (1652-1732) is recognised as one of the most important English women writers of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. This book reproduces her important early published volume, "Poetical Recreations".

Includes twenty short texts written by named and unnamed women in the years 1641-1700. These texts, are grouped in thematic clusters - poetry on religion, on politics, on society, on domestic/social affairs and on mourning. The poems are arranged chronologically, and the volume closes with Anne Wentworth's pamphlet "England's Spiritual Pill".

Part of a series offering works by, for and about Englishwomen of the early-modern period, this title offers three poems (1691-93). The first laments William III's temporary departure to Holland, the other two burlesques on life at Oxford University.

"The Early Modern Englishwoman" series makes available a comprehensive and focused collection of writings in English from 1500 to 1750. This volume looks at the devotional poetry of the mysterious An Collins.