The History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690

BERNADETTE ANDREA Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA VICTORIA E. BURKE Associate Professor of English, University of Ottawa, Canada KATHARINE GILLESPIE Associate Professor of Seventeenth-Century English and Colonial American Literature, Miami University of Ohio, USA PAMELA HAMMONS Associate Professor of English, University of Miami, USA THEODORA A. JANKOWSKI Professor of English, Penn State Wilkes-Barre, USA CLARE R. KINNEY Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA CRISTINA MALCOLMSON Professor of English, Bates College, USA MEGAN MATCHINSKE Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA SHANNON MILLER is Professor of English, Temple University, USA PATRICIA PHILLIPPY Professor of English, Texas A&M University, USA MARGARET REEVES Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada PAUL SALZMAN Reader in English Literature, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia MIHOKO SUZUKI Professor of English, University of Miami, USA SUSAN WISEMAN Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK MARION WYNNE-DAVIES Chair of English Literature, University of Surrey, UK

During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.