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This work covers letters written by medieval women covering the period between approximately 1200 and 1500. The letters show the concerns and feelings of women from less exalted social circles and the vitality and variety of their lives. Most collections of medieval letters, dominated by male writers, are arranged according to the subject of the letters. Here, the emphasis is on the women's relationships with their families, parents, siblings, husbands and children and their wider social networks. A brief introduction to each letter sets it in context and provides information about the writer.
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• Note on the Texts Introduction
• 1. Margaret Cavendish (1623-73)
• 2. Anne Conway (1631-79)
• 3. Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659-1708)
• 4. Elizabeth Berkeley Burnet (1661-1709) Bibliography Index.
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This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c. 1650-1700). It includes the correspondences of Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris Cudworth Masham, and Elizabeth Berkeley Burnet. These women were the interlocutors of some of the best-known intellectuals of their era, including Constantijn Huygens, Walter Charleton, Henry More, Joseph Glanvill, John Locke, Jean Le Clerc, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Their epistolary exchanges range over a wide variety of philosophical subjects, from religion, moral theology, and ethics to epistemology, metaphysics, and natural philosophy. For the first time in one collection, the philosophical correspondences of these women have been brought together to be appreciated as a whole. Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England is an invaluable primary resource for students and scholars of these neglected women thinkers. It includes original introductory essays for each woman philosopher, demonstrating how her correspondences contributed to the formation of her own views as well as those of her better-known contemporaries. It also provides detailed scholarly annotations to the letters and epistles, explaining unfamiliar philosophical ideas and defining obscure terminology to help make the texts accessible and comprehensible to the modern reader. This collection and its companion volume, Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England (forthcoming), provide valuable historical evidence that women made substantial contributions to the formation and development of early modern thought and reflect the intensely collaborative and gender-inclusive nature of philosophical discussion in the early modern period.
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• The Hodgdon letters-- letters to Sabrina Bennett-- the Larcom letters-- Mary Paul letters-- Delia Page letters.
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Between 1820 and 1860, tens of thousands of single women left rural New England to work in the factory towns of the region. After a few years, they returned to the farm, moved west, or settled in the growing urban centres. In "Farm to Factory", Thomas Dublin has selected letters from six of these women in order to provide a personal view of the first generation of American women employed for wages outside their own homes. This second edition contains a new introduction, placing the work in the context of developments in the field of women's history, and a new set of letters by Emeline Larcom of Lowell, Massachusetts. Like those in the first edition, these letters, which offer evidence that family members collectively sent money home to support their widowed mother, provide a particular perspective on early industrial capitalism and its effect on women.
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Letters by five 19th-century New England women, among the tens of thousands who formed the first generation of American women employed for wages outside their own homes.
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This is the second of two collections of correspondence written by early modern English women philosophers. In this volume, Jacqueline Broad presents letters from three influential thinkers of the eighteenth century: Mary Astell, Elizabeth Thomas, and Catharine Trotter Cockburn. Broad provides introductory essays for each figure and explanatory annotations to clarify unfamiliar language, content, and historical context for the modern reader. Her selections make available many letters that have never been published before or that live scattered in various archives, obscure manuscripts, and rare books. The discussions range in subject from moral theology and ethics to epistemology and metaphysics; they involve some well-known thinkers of the period, such as John Norris, George Hickes, Mary Chudleigh, John Locke, and Edmund Law. By centering epistolary correspondence, Broad's anthology works to reframe early modern philosophy, the foundation for so much of twentieth-century philosophy, as consisting of collaborative debates that women actively participated in and shaped. Together with its companion volume, Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England: Selected Correspondence is an invaluable primary resource for students, scholars, and those undertaking further research in the history of women's contributions to the formation and development of early modern thought.
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• Note on the Texts Introduction
• 1. Margaret Cavendish (1623-73)
• 2. Anne Conway (1631-79)
• 3. Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659-1708)
• 4. Elizabeth Berkeley Burnet (1661-1709) Bibliography Index.
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This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c. 1650-1700). It includes the correspondences of Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris Cudworth Masham, and Elizabeth Berkeley Burnet. These women were the interlocutors of some of the best-known intellectuals of their era, including Constantijn Huygens, Walter Charleton, Henry More, Joseph Glanvill, John Locke, Jean Le Clerc, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Their epistolary exchanges range over a wide variety of philosophical subjects, from religion, moral theology, and ethics to epistemology, metaphysics, and natural philosophy. For the first time in one collection, the philosophical correspondences of these women have been brought together to be appreciated as a whole. Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England is an invaluable primary resource for students and scholars of these neglected women thinkers. It includes original introductory essays for each woman philosopher, demonstrating how her correspondences contributed to the formation of her own views as well as those of her better-known contemporaries. It also provides detailed scholarly annotations to the letters and epistles, explaining unfamiliar philosophical ideas and defining obscure terminology to help make the texts accessible and comprehensible to the modern reader. This collection and its companion volume, Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England (forthcoming), provide valuable historical evidence that women made substantial contributions to the formation and development of early modern thought and reflect the intensely collaborative and gender-inclusive nature of philosophical discussion in the early modern period.
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The artist Gwen John (1876-1939), known for her intense figure studies, portraits and interiors, was one of the most enigmatic and intriguing figures in the history of twentieth century art. This first publication of an extensive selection of unabridged letters, alongside extracts from her notebooks, sheds new light on her life, her career and her artistic development. After training at the Slade and at Whistler's Academy in Paris, John settled in Paris in 1905, where she modelled for Rodin, subsequently becoming his lover In 1915 she converted to Catholicism, withdrawing to the suburban village of Meudon, where she remained until her death. The letters she sent to friends and the notebooks in which she explored her artistic ideas and recorded visual impressions, often combining notes and sketches on the same page, were an important medium of expression for her. While never intended for publication, these writings, drawn from the artist's personal archives at the National Library of Wales, reveal the witty, passionate and intensely committed artistic intelligence that lay behind her work. Essential reading for all those interested in the life of this extraordinary artist and in the creative process itself.
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This collection of 161 letters provides a look at the intimate inner workings of an upper-middle-class Victorian household. Written by a young woman, Louise Creighton, to her mother, the letters start during Louise's honeymoon in Paris, and end in November 1880, just before her mother's death. Louise Creighton was the wife and biographer of Bishop Mandell Creighton, but has also emerged as a moderate Christian feminist in an era when women's causes were usually articulated by more militant voices. The letters also reveal much about the academic and social life in Oxford and later in Northumberland where Louise records her duties as a vicar's wife. Other sections in her letters are descriptions of managing her household of servants, and her social activities.
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"Nomadic Narratives, Visual Forces" explores issues, questions, and problems emerging in the analysis of epistolary and visual narratives. This book focuses in particular on Gwen John's letters and paintings. It offers an innovative theoretical approach to narrative analysis by drawing on Foucault's theory of power, Deleuze and Guattari's analytics of desire, and Cavarero's concept of the narratable self. Furthermore, it examines the use of letters as documents of life in narrative research and highlights the dynamics of spatiality in the constitution of the female self in art. This study brings together theoretical insights that emerge from the analysis of life documents - some of them previously unpublished - combining innovative research with specific methodological suggestions on doing narrative analysis.
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The Paston letters form one of only two surviving collections of fifteenth-century correspondence, in their case especially rich in letters from the women of the family. Clandestine love affairs, secret marriages, violent family rows, bickering with neighbours, battles and sieges, threats of murder and kidnapping, fears of plague: these are just some of the topics discussed in the letters of the Paston women. Diane Watt's introduction seeks to place these letters in the context of medieval women's writing and medieval letter writing. Her interpretive essay reconstructs the lives of these women by examining what the letters reveal about women's literacy and education, life in the medieval household, religion and piety, health and medicine, and love, marriage, family relationships, and female friendships in the middle ages. Diane Watt is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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The letters of Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon offer the richly illuminating story of a loving mother and devoted friend. Cumulatively, they provide an unfolding, sometimes self-dramatizing narrative, one which details the expansive life of a privileged woman and her family throughout the turbulent years of the early to mid-17th century. Jane Lady Cornwallis Bacon was born about 1581, daughter of Hercules Meautys of West Ham, Essex, and Phillippa, daughter of Richard Cooke of Gidea Hall, Essex. In 1608 she married Sir William Cornwallis, of Brome, Suffolk, who died in 1611 when their son Frederick was one year and three days old. In 1614 she married Nathaniel Bacon, of Culford, Suffolk, with whom she had three children, Anne, Nicholas, and Jane. For many years she looked after her own children and those of her relatives in the large and comfortable home at Culford, where she died in 1659. Complemented by extensive notes and 16 illustrations, "The Private Correspondence of Lady Jane Cornwallis Bacon, 1613-1644" constitutes a unique collection. It brings to life the interests and concerns of a family living in England before the Civil War, and gives insight into the complex yet recognizable relationships for the first time and thereby form a major contribution to our knowledge of Jacobean and Stuart family life.
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• 1. Manuscripts from the British Library, London (reels 1-14): reel
• 1. Sappho : Pap
• 739. Christine de Pisan : Add 15641, Add 17446, Add 20698
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• 2. Christine de Pisan : Add 31841, Harl 4410, Harl 4431
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• 3. Christine de Pisan : Harl 4605, Royal 14 E ii
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• 4. Christine de Pisan : Royal 15 E vi
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• 5. Christine de Pisan : Royal 17 E iv, Royal 18 B xxii, Royal 19 A xix
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• 6. Christine de Pisan : Royal 19 B xviii. Marie de France : Cotton Cal A ii, Cotton Vesp B xiv, Harl 978
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• 7. Julian of Norwich : Sloane 2499, Sloane 3705, Add 37790
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• 8. Bridget of Sweden : Cotton Julius F ii. Jane/Joan Lumley : Add 35324, Royal 14 B iii, Royal 12 E ii, Royal 15 A ix, Royal 17 A xxii
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• 9. Margaret Hoby : Egerton
• 2614. Margaret Kempe : Add
• 61823. Rose Throckmorton : Add 43827 A & B, Add 45027
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• 10. Queen Mary Psalter : Royal 2 B vii. Katherine Aston, Add 36452
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• 11. Katherine Austen : Add
• 4454. Jane Barker : Add
• 21621. Devonshire Mss : Add
• 17492. Lettice Cary : Add
• 45388. Grace Cary : Egerton 1044
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• 11. Elizabeth Jocelyn : Add 4378
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• 12. Mary Clarcke : Harl 1860
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• 13. Katherine Parr : Add 24965
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• 14. Margaret Roper/More : Royal 17 D xiv.
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• 2. Household books, correspondence, and manuscripts owned by women, from the British Library, London (reels 15-26).

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• 1. The first world tour, 1872-3: The sea
• Australia
• Hawaii
• Colorado
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• 2. The second world tour, 1878-9: Japan & the way thither
• China
• The Malay Peninsula.