The manuscripts in this digital collection have been produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. "Perdita" means "lost woman" and the aim of the Project has been to identify and describe all manner of manuscript writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama. The documents in this section, from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, include manuscripts of: Elizabeth Jekyll, Ursula Wyvill, Dorothy Frances Feilding, Lady Jane Cavendish, Mary Hase, Lady Anne Clifford, Anne Wentworth Watson Rockingham, Elizabeth Newell, Elisabeth Moyle Gregor, Jane Truesdale, Mary Webber. They contain literary works as well as commonplace books, journals and account books, and include transcriptions of sermons and other religious texts.