ABSTRACT

This volume reproduces twenty short texts written by named and unnamed women in the years 1641-1700. These texts, selected and introduced by various hands, are grouped in thematic clusters for the reader's ease - poetry on religion, on politics, on society, on domestic/social affairs and on mourning. The poems are arranged chronologically within each cluster. The volume closes with Anne Wentworth's pamphlet England's Spiritual Pill.

chapter |42 pages

POETRY ON POLITICS

chapter |12 pages

POETRY ON SOCIETY

chapter |80 pages

POETRY ON DOMESTIC/SOCIAL AFFAIRS

chapter |24 pages

POETRY OF MOURNING