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Book SynopsisAn anthology of previously unpublished and hard-to-find poetic material from early modern women who wrote in manuscript form. It features a broad and useful introduction examining the phenomenon of manuscript writing, and biographical notes preface the work of each author -- .
Table of ContentsList of contributors
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction - Elizabeth Clarke and Jonathan Gibson
Textual introduction - Jill Seal Millman and Gillian Wright
1. Jane Seager's translations of sibylline prophecies: British Library Additional MS 10037
2. Mary Sidney's psalm paraphrases: British Library Additional MS 12047
3. Lady Mary Wroth, 'Pamphilia to Amphilanthus': Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.a.104
4. Anne Southwell's poetry: Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.198, British Library Lansdowne MS 740
5. Anna Ley's posthumously collected writings: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library MS L6815 M3 C734
6. Presentation volume of Jane Cavendish's poetry: Yale University, Beinecke Library Osborn MS b. 233
7. Lucy Hutchinson's 'Elegies': Nottinghamshire Archives, DD/HU2
8. Hester Pulter's 'Poems Breathed forth By The Noble Hadassas': Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 32
9. Presentation volume of Katherine Philips's verse: National Library of Wales MS 776B
10. Mary Roper?'s 'The Sacred Historie': Leeds University Library Brotherton Library MS Lt q 2
11. Julia Palmer's 'Centuries' of devotional verse: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA MS P1745 M1 P744 1671-3 Bound
12. Mary Astell's presentation manuscript: Bodleian MS Rawlinson poet. 154
13. Marie Burghope's country house poem: Huntington Library MS EL 35/B/62
14. Octavia Walsh's verse miscellany: Bodleian MS Eng. Poet. 31
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