Women Writers Project

In 1825 the Rev. Alexander Dyce showed his breadth of reading by including some of ADA 's work in Specimens of British Poetesses Her two Oxford poems are now available on-line from the Women Writers Project

It was probably published soon afterwards, though the title-page says 1611. Handsome copies of the title-poem without all of its accompanying or supporting poems were given as gifts to Prince Henry (eldest son of James I

ADA 's satirical poem entitled Academia; or, The Humours of the University of Oxford, went on sale in Oxford.

ADA mocked the university again in another satire, The Oxford -Act: A Poem.

SF was still in her teens when her first, fighting poem, The Female Advocate, was licensed in London; it was published the same year, with her initials on the prefatory To the Reader...

SF published her Poems on Several Occasions, with prefatory verses probably by Mary Pix and Susanna Centlivre .

JW was the lead author of The Work of God in a Dying Maid, a setting for the deathbed testimonies of her small son and particularly of her daughter.

JW called people and monarch to repentance in a fifteen-page pamphlet, The Humble Address of the Widow Whitrowe to King William.

JW approached the king again in The Humble Salutation and Faithful Greeting of the Widow Whitrowe to King William.

JW addressed a New Year message to both the joint monarchs: To King William and Queen Mary , Grace and Peace, The Widow Whitrow's Humble Thanksgiving to the Lord.