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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:30:10 -0400
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Subject: Call for Contributors
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PLEASE CROSS POST:
15 October 1997
The following volumes are currently being organized for Series I and Series II
of Scolar's THE EARLY MODERN ENGLISHWOMAN, A FACSIMILE LIBRARY OF ESSENTIAL
WORKS, 1500-1750. Volume editors will be involved with the selection of copy
for the volume and will write a short essay (ca. 1000-3000) words, including a
bibliography. Prospective contributors to what is conceived of as an
international effort are invited to write to the general editors (Betty S.
Travitsky, 1890 East 12 Street, Brooklyn, NY 11229, USA; Patrick Cullen, 300
West 108 Street, Apt. 8D, New York, NY 10025, USA), expressing their interest
and expertise in the subject of the volume and enclosing a cv.
1. SERIES I. PRINTED WRITINGS, 1500-1640, PART III. (Part III is the open part
of Series I, designed to respond to the ongoing discoveries of texts and
authorship made by researchers in the field.)
1. Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Morning and evening prayers, with divers psalmes himnes
and meditations. 1574.
2. Man, Judith, trans. An epitome of the history of faire Argenis and
Polyarchus, put in French, by N. Coeffeteau. 1640. [By John Barclay].
3. Late Medieval Englishwomen to Reach Print before 1700: Berners, Juliana, The
booke of haukyng, huntyng and fysshyng (1496); Juliana of Norwich, XVI
revelations of divine love (1670); Margary Kempe, Boke of Margary Kempe (1501).
4. Percy, Mary [Isabella Christina Bellinzaga], trans. An abridgement of
christian perfection. 1612 + [By Father Achilles Galliardi or Gagliardi.]
5. Greenbury, Catherine [Catherine of St. Francis], trans. Short Relation of
the Life of St. Elizabeth. 1628. [By Franciscus Paludanus].
6. Bentley, Catharine ?and Evelinge, Elizabeth [Sister Magdalen Augustin ?and
Sister Catharine of St. Magdalen ], trans. History of the angelicall virgin
glorious S. Clare. [By Francis Henricq.] 1635.
7. Phoenix, Anne (?). The saints legacies: or, a collection of certaine
promises out of the word of God. 3rd edition. 1633.
8. Campbell, Anne, trans. El Alma del incomparable San Augustin Sacada del
Cuerpo de sus Confessiones. 1622.
9. Pudentiana Deacon[s], trans. Delicious Entertainments of the Soul. 1632. [By
Francis de Sales].
2. SERIES II: PRINTED WRITINGS, 1640-1700. PART II: VOLUMES ORGANIZED BY GENRE/
SUBJECT/ FORMAT:
1. Life Writing (2 volumes):
Hannah Allen, Satan, His Methods and Malice Baffled; Susannah Blandford, Small
account; Barbara Blaugdone, Account of the Travels; Susan Davy, Heaven Realiz'd;
Susanna Parr, Susanna's Apologie Against the Elders; Anne Gerard Wyndham,
Claustrum Regale Reservatum or the King's Concealment at Trent; Frances Cooke,
Mris. Cookes Meditations; Mary White Rowlandson, A True History of the
Captivity and Restoration; Elizabeth White, Experiences of Gods Gracious
Dealing; Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers, Short Relation of Some of the
Cruel Sufferings . . . in the Isle of Malta; Anne Wentworth, Vindication of
Anne Wentworth; Theodosia Alleine, Life and Death of . . . Mr. Joseph Alleine;
Mary Carleton [in part], Historical Narrative of the German Princess
2. Mothers' Advice Books (1 volume):
Susanna Bell, Legacy of a Dying Mother; Elizabeth Richardson, Ladies Legacie
to her daughters
3. Domestic Skills and Advice Books (1-2 volumes):
M. H., Young Cooks Monitor; or, Directions for Cookery and Distilling;
Elizabeth Talbot Grey, C. of Kent, Choice Manuall; ---, True Gentlewomans
Delight; Mary Tillinghast, Rare and Excellent Receipts; Judith Drake (?), Essay
in Defence of the Female Sex; Six Familiar Essays upon Marriage; Susanna
Jesserson, Bargain for Bachelors
4. Educational and Vocational Books (1-2 volumes):
Bathsua Makin, Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen; Anna
Maria van Schurman, The Learned Maid; ---The Parallel ;--- Advice to the Women
and Maidens of London; Mary Trye, Medicatrix, or the woman-physician; Jane
Sharp, Midwives' Book; Elizabeth Cellier, To Dr. -. . .
5. Occasional Ephemera/Almanacs (1 volume):
Mary Holden, The Woman's Almanack . . . for the year of . . . 1689; Sarah
Jinner, An almanack . . . for . . . 1659; and for . . . 1659; and for . . .
1660; and for . . . 1664; Dorothy Partridge, The Woman's Almanack for . . .
1694
6. Occasional Ephemera/Broadsides and News Pamphlets (1-2 volumes):
Margaret Clark, True Confession ; Elinor James, Mrs. James' Advice . . .; Case
between a Father and His Children; Mrs. James's Defence . . . ; An Injur'd
Prince Vindicated; and May It Please Your Majesty; and Most Dear Sovereign; My
Lord . . .; and My Lords, I Can Assure . . .; My Lords, You Can't Be Sensible .
. .; Mrs. James Her New Answear; Sir, My Lord Major; This Being . . .; To the
Honourable Convention; To the Honourable the House of Commons; To the Kings
Most Excellent Majesty; To the Right Honourable Convention; To the Right
Honourable the House of Lords; To the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor; Mrs.
James Vindication of the Church of England; Mary Moore, Wonderfull News from
the North ; Hester Shaw, Mrs. Shaw's Innocency Restored ; Leticia Wiginton,
Confession and Execution ; etc. [These items are merely illustrative.]
7. Occasional Ephemera/Political Letters and Petitions (1 volume):
Anne, Queen of England, Princess Anne of Denmark's Letter to the Queen; Humble
Petition of the Widdows . . .; Elinor James, My Lords, Your can't but be
sensible . . .; To the Supream Authority . . . The humble Petition of divers
wel-affected Women . . .; To the Right Honourable, the High Court of Parliament;
The Humble Petition of many hundreds of distressed Women . . .; etc. [These
items are merely illustrative.]
8. Essays/tracts/treatises (1 volume):
Answer to Pereat Papa; Priscilla Cotton, Briefe Description by way of
Supposition; Anne (Finch) Conway, Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern
Philosophy; Grace Norton Gethin, Misery's Virtues Whetstone ; Damaris Mascham,
Discourse Concerning the Love of God
9. Fiction (2-3 volumes):
Marianna d'Alcoforado, Five Love-letters from a Nun to a Cavalier; and Seven
Portugueses Letters; Catherine Bernard, The Count of Amboise ; and The Female
Prince; Mary de la Riviere Manley, Letters Written by Mrs. Manley ; Anna Weamys,
Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia 10. Plays (1 volume):
[Ariadne], She Ventures, and He Wins; Frances Boothby, Marcelia; Susanna
Centlivre, The Perjur'd husband; Catharine Cockburn, Agnes de Castro; and Fatal
Friendship; Mary de la Riviere Manley, The Lost Lover; and The Royal Mischief ;
Elizabeth Polwhele, The Frolicks; Unnatural Mother
11. Poetry (3-4 volumes):
Jane Barker, Poetical Recreations; W. C., Poems on Several Occasions; An
Collins, Divine songs and meditacions; Alicia D'anvers, Academia ; and Poem
upon his Sacred Majesty ; Sarah Fyge Egerton, Female Advocate ; and Poems on
Several Occasions; Eliza's Babes ; Mary Evelyn, Mundus muliebris; Amey Hayward,
Female's Legacy; Rachael Jevon, Carmen ; and Exultationis Carmen; Anne
Killigrew, Poems ; Elizabeth Major, Honey on the Rod [partly poetry); Ode
Occasion'd by the Death of Her Sacred Majesty ; Katherine Philips, Poems ; Joan
Phillips, Female Poems on Several Occasions; Poem on the Death of the Queen;
Elizabeth Rowe, Poems on Several Occasions ; Elizabeth Tipper, Pilgrim's
Viaticum
12. Religious Writings (above 5 pp), excluding Quaker and Prophetic Writings (1-
2 volumes):
Elizabeth Eyre, Letter from a Person of Quality ; Margaret Greenway,
Lamentation against the Professing Priest . . .; Susannah Hopton, Daily
Devotions ; and Occasional Thoughts to a Vertuous or Christian Life; Mary
Boyle Rich, Countess of Warwick, Occasional Meditations ; Elizabeth Percy,
Meditations and Prayers; Anne Venn, A Wise Virgins Lamp Burning; Sarah Wight,
Wonderful Pleasant and Profitable Letter; Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, Copy of a
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