Lay By Your Needles Ladies, Take the Pen: Writing Women in England, 1500-1700

Trill, Suzanne, Kate Chedgzoy and Melanie Osborne (eds)

ISBN 10: 0340614501 / ISBN 13: 9780340614501

Published by A Hodder Arnold Publication, 1997

About this Item

299pp. Near new condition, covers bright, text clean & binding tight.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lay By Your Needles Ladies, Take the Pen: Writing Women in England, 1500-1700
• Publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340614501
• ISBN 13: 9780340614501
• Binding: Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Literature - Renaissance

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Synopsis

This anthology contains long extracts from fifty early modern texts, including witchcraft pamphlets, letters and other manuscript material, prophetic texts, practical books and petitions, as well as the more widely recognized genres of prose fiction and autobiography. The women writers themselves represent a range of different social, religious and political positions. Texts by male writers are also included to promote "a gendered poetics that rereads men's texts in the weave of women's". The result is a comprehensive introduction to women's writing in the Renaissance that encourages the exploration of the differences between women.

About the Author

Suzanne Trill, Lecturer in English, Queen's University, Belfast. Kate Chedgzoy, Lecturer in English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick. Melanie Osborne, Lecturer in English, University of Durham.