Most people, even within the area of English literature, are unaware of how much writing women produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book offer a clear, coherent outline of that writing, and also looks at how it was read and reproduced through succeeding centuries down to the present day. - ;This book contains the first comprehensive account of writing by women from the mid sixteenth century through to 1700. At the same time, it traces the way a representative sample of that writing was published, circulated in manuscript, read, anthologised, reprinted, and discussed from t |