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The preface to the work writhes between expression and suppression. MB alternately fears being blamed for vanity or presumption and hints at her ambition, citing Charlotte Smith . She admires Smith for having succeeded...

Her calling it the first Work of mine that ever came in Print sounds as if she may have written other texts. She dedicated this one to Bridget , her eldest son's wife, who...

According to critic Mihoko Suzuki , The Case incorporates two portraits of its protagonist. The same plate was apparently used in two versions, one revised as to the hairstyle and ageing of the face. One...

She wrote in response to Duck's The Thresher's Labour, 1730, incensed to find a male poet of her own class sneering at women as inferior workers and frivolous gossips and time-wasters. Having written, she...

SDV 's text renders what were originally two separate books by Camus, Bishop of Belley, published in 1628 and 1638. Her work has been reprinted, edited by Betty S. Travitsky and Patrick Cullen , in...

MF set her initials to A Loving Salutation to the Seed of Abraham among the Jewes, also probably printed in 1656 as its title-page says, and re-issued by a different publisher in 1660.

Her aim was to persuade him to legislate for liberty of conscience and thereby to liberate the many Quakers in prison for their beliefs. Her publications of this momentous year included To Major Generall Harrison...

MF says that she personally travelled two hundred miles to deliver into the king 's own hand one of her Restoration tracts, A Declaration and an Information from us the People of God called Quakers

One of MF 's 1660 tracts is an epistle beginning This was given to Major Generall Harrison and the rest. She signs off as a true lover of all your soules . . . who...

Its full title is Womens Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed of by the Scriptures , All such as speak by the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus: And how Women were the first that...

The only surviving copy of this collection, bound up with other material is held by the Bodleian Library . It was once owned by the seventeenth-centeury scholar and antiquary John Selden, who understood it...

MR was vividly conscious of Marie Antoinette as a woman whom she had actually met, and conscious of the personal, unvoiceable interest which each had taken in the other. This work can be consulted in...

This work, printed for the Author, is available from Women Writers Online , http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu. MR 's full title is Sappho and Phaon. In a Series of Legitimate Sonnets, with Thoughts on Poetical Subjects, and...

This work (from the same publishers as the earlier, pseudonymous edition as A Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination) is available in the Women Writers Project , http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu.

While it was often called The Queen's Prayers, the first edition copy used for Women Writers Online (http://www.wwp.northeastern.edu) is titled Prayers Stirryng the Mynd unto Heavenlye Medytacions collected oute of holy workes. The...