Books in the The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I, Part Four series

Includes two early seventeenth-century translations of Roman Catholic books by English recusant nuns - Catherine Greenbury (a Franciscan) and Mary Percy (a Benedictine). To practise their faith on the continent both these women fled Elizabethan England where Roman Catholic practice had been outlawed under pain of severe penalty (even death).

The Confessions written by St Augustine, Bishop of Hippo is a seminal work for Roman Catholic Europe. The publication in 1622 of Duchess Anne Campbell's selections in Spanish of parts of Augustine's Confessions is worthy of attention because of the evidence it gives of one woman's education and literary interests.

Anne Fenwick was a charismatic puritan. In 1969, one of her manuscripts was published without her knowledge by the printer Robert Swayne. But another edition reproduced here was published by Michael Sparke in 1631 with her consent. It includes her prefatory letter, in which she explains the circumstances of the initial publication.

Includes the works of three Englishwomen: Julian of Norwich, whose Revelations were first printed in 1670; Margery Kempe, from whose "Boke of Marjorie Kempe" a few extracts were printed in 1501 and again in 1512; and, Juliana Berners whose treatise on hawkyng and huntyng was first printed in 1486.