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Poems by a Sixteenth-Century Gentlewoman, Maid, and Servant

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A collection of poems by the first English woman to publish secular poetry under her own name. Isabella Whitney (c. 1547–after 1624) was the first English woman to publish original secular poetry under her own name. She published two poetic miscellanies of poems: The Copy of a Letter (1567) and A Sweet Nosegay (1573), which include her own work as well as a total of six poems by five different male authors. This edition of her writings prints modernized texts of the complete miscellanies and adds to them six poems attributed to Whitney by largely twentieth-century critics. These poems provide a rich portrait of sixteenth-century female courtship and its dangers, a unique view of class and gender in Whitney’s lifetime, and a portrait of London as a burgeoning market of practical goods and luxury items from foodstuffs to imported silk.  

Author Biography:

Isabella Whitney (c. 1547–after 1624) was born in Chester and lived in London. Shannon Miller is professor of English and comparative literature and the dean of the College of Humanities and the Arts at San José State University. She is the author of Invested with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World and Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers.  
Release date Australia
July 20th, 2024
Contributor
  • Edited by Shannon Miller
Pages
212
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
4 color plates, 1 map
ISBN-13
9781649590916
Product ID
36551992

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