Books in the The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II, Part Four series

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".

A facsimile edition of Lady Eleanor Davies' pre-1640 texts. It features 60 texts from the corpus of 66 printed between 1641 and 1652.

A facsimile edition of Lady Eleanor Davies' pre-1640 texts. It features 60 texts from the corpus of 66 printed between 1641 and 1652.

Katherine Chidley was a religious and political activist who dissented from the established church throughout the 1620s, 30s and 40s. Between 1641 and 1645, Chidley published three works disputing his anti-separatist arguments. This title presents these works along with an introduction to Chidley's life and works.

Susanna Hopton was born in 1627 to a wealthy mercantile family. Her first printed work, "Daily Devotions", set the pattern for all her subsequent publications which were published anonymously through the mediation of male, clerical friends. In spite of her anonymity during the lifetime, Hopton had a flourishing posthumous reputation.

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".