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Summary

Early modern women's manuscript poetry is an anthology of texts by fourteen women poets writing between 1589 and 1706. It is the only currently available anthology of early modern women's writing which focuses exclusively on manuscript material. Authors include Mary Sidney, Lucy Hutchinson and Katherine Philips; central figures in the emerging canon of early modern women writers, but whose work appears in a fresh and very different light in the manuscript context emphasised by this anthology. The volume also includes substantial excerpts from a recently discovered verse paraphrase of Genesis, thought to be by the previously unknown seventeenth-century writer Mary Roper, as well as selections from the unjustly neglected poet, Hester Pulter.

Author Biography

Jill Seal Millman is a Research Fellow working on the Perdita Project in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick University.

Gillian Wright is a Research Fellow in the Department of English and Media Studies at Nottingham Trent University.

List of plates

vii

Notes on contributors

viii

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

(10)

Elizabeth Clarke

Jonathan Gibson

Textual introduction

(4)

Jill Seal Millman

Gillian Wright

Jane Seager's translations of the-ten sibyls' prophecies of the birth of Christ

British Library Additional MS 10037

(6)

Mary Sidney's psalm paraphrases

British Library Additional MS 12047

(14)

Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus

Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.a.104

(22)

Anne Southwell's poetry

Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b.198, British Library Lansdowne MS 740

(20)

Anna Ley's posthumously collected writings

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library MS L6815 M3 C734

(10)

Presentation volume of Jane Cavendish's poetry

Yale University, Beinecke Library Osborn MS b. 233

(10)

Lucy Hutchinson's `Elegies'

Nottinghamshire Archives, DD/HU2

(14)

Hester Pulter's `Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas'

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 32

111

(17)

Presentation volume of Katherine Philips's verse

National Library of Wales MS 776B

128

(25)

Mary Roper?'s `The Sacred Historie'

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 2

153

(16)

Julia Palmer's `Centuries' of devotional verse

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, MS P1745 M1 P744 1671-3 Bound

169

(13)

Mary Astell's presentation manuscript for Archbishop Sancroft

Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 154

182

(12)

Marie Burghope's country house poem, `The Vision'

Huntington Library MS EL 35/B/62

194

(21)

Octavia Walsh's verse miscellany

Bodleian Library MS Eng. poet. e. 31

215

(14)

Interpretative notes

229

(40)

Select bibliography

269

(8)

Index of poetry titles and first lines

277

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