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

Reprints Anna Hume's translation of Petrarch's "The Triumphs of Love", a series of six poems celebrating Petrarch's purported devotion to Laura. The poems tell a tale of Love's triumph over the poet, superseded by the triumph of chastity (Laura did not yield to Petrarch's love) which is in turn superseded by the triumph of death over Laura.

Provides Delarivier Manley's contribution to the literary and theatrical milieu of the late 17th century. This book includes a epistolary novella, letters; a commendatory poem 'To the Author of Agnes de Castro'; a comedy, 'The Lost Lover, or The Jealous Husband', a tragedy, 'The Royal Mischief'; and two commemorative poems.

Katherine Philips was a major seventeenth-century poet and playwright who was popular for her innovative use of Donnean poetics. She had the mixed fortune of being enshrined in posthumous volumes that both celebrated and misrepresented her achievement. This book tells who Philips was and how she conducted her literary career.

This volume presents Anna Weamys' 'A Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's 'Arcadia'', together with a preface and an introductory note.

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".

Mary Carleton, also known as the German Princess, was a scandalous celebrity in Restoration London. Her notoriety arose from her 1663 trial and acquittal for bigamy. This volume contains her version of her life as a 'German Princess', who married first a Canterbury shoemaker, and then a surgeon. It also includes selection of pamphlets on her.

A collection of writings by Elizabeth Cellier, the scandalous celebrity known as the 'Popish midwife', who was tried twice: the first time for the more serious charge of treason, and the second for libel, for publishing "Malice Defeated". These writings during 1641-1700 exhibit her determination to publish her accusations of government torture.

Katherine Philips was a major seventeenth-century poet and playwright who was popular for her innovative use of Donnean poetics. She had the mixed fortune of being enshrined in posthumous volumes that both celebrated and misrepresented her achievement. This book tells who Philips was and how she conducted her literary career.

Katherine Philips was a major seventeenth-century poet and playwright who was popular for her innovative use of Donnean poetics. She had the mixed fortune of being enshrined in posthumous volumes that both celebrated and misrepresented her achievement. This book tells who Philips was and how she conducted her literary career.