Hannah Wolley

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Standard Name: Wolley, Hannah
Birth Name: Hannah
Married Name: Hannah Wolley
Married Name: Hannah Challinor
HW predates Aphra Behn in making a living by her pen, only in her case her seventeenth-century writings (on cooking, medicine, household skills, and general conduct) aimed to attract students to her other career, which was teaching women. She seeks to keep cookery in female hands in the face of male professional encroachments (especially in how-to manuals). Her medical cures constitute a challenge to male professionals.
Hobby, Elaine. “A woman’s best setting out is silence: the writings of Hannah Wolley”. Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History, edited by Gerald Maclean, Cambridge University Press, pp. 179-00.
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Textual Production Aphra Behn
AB was the first woman to earn her living by literary writing, not writing tied to a profession or occupation (like that of, for instance, Hannah Wolley ). She was poor all her life. Her...

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Wolley, Hannah. A Supplement to the Queen-Like Closet. Printed by T. R. for Richard Lowndes, 1764.
Wolley, Hannah. The Accomplish’d Ladies Delight. Printed for B. Harris, 1675.
Wolley, Hannah. The Compleat Servant-Maid. T. Passinger, 1677.
Wolley, Hannah. The Cook’s Guide: or, Rare Receipts for Cookery. Printed for Peter Dring, 1664.
Wolley, Hannah. The Gentlewoman’s Companion. Printed by A. Maxwell for Dorman Newman, 1673.
Wolley, Hannah. The Ladies Delight: or, A Rich Closet. Printed by T. Milbourn for N. Crouch, 1672.
Wolley, Hannah. The Ladies Directory. Printed by Thomas Milbourn for the authoress, 1661.
Wolley, Hannah. The Queen-Like Closet, or Rich Cabinet. Printed for J. Lowndes, 1670.