02184nam 22004573u 450 991045143520332120210430205206.00-19-535933-X(CKB)1000000000414643(EBL)430447(OCoLC)252639944(MiAaPQ)EBC430447(EXLCZ)99100000000041464320140113d1993|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh[electronic resource]Oxford Oxford University Press, USA19931 online resource (429 p.)Women Writers in English 1350-1850Description based upon print version of record.0-19-508360-1 Contents; Foreword; Introduction; The Ladies Defence: Or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd; Poems on Several Occasions; The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd; Essays upon Several Subjects in Prose and Verse; Index of First Lines of PoemsThe first edition of the collected poetry and prose of the Restoration feminist, Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710), this volume includes The Ladies Defence as well as her final prose meditations. New biographical and bibliographical information in the Introduction revises the existing accounts of her life and literary career. The volume makes available for the first time the complete range of Chudleigh's literary experiments and calls for a reassessment of the image of the woman writer of the Restoration. A friend of John Dryden and Mary Astell, Chudleigh experimented with a variety of literaryWomen Writers in English 1350-1850WomenWomen and literatureElectronic books.Women.Women and literature.828.409828/.409Chudleigh Mary LeeLady,1656-1710.907390Ezell Margaret J.M907391AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910451435203321The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh2029849UNINA