A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

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This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.

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• Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing
  
• Examines individual texts, including works by Mary Sidney, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn
  
• Explores the historical context and generic diversity of early modern women's writing, as well as the theoretical issues that underpin its study
  
• Provides a clear sense of the full extent of women's contributions to early modern literary culture