The ten essays in this collection explore the discrete yet overlapping female spaces of privacy and domesticity in early modern England. While other literary cr

The essays that comprise this collection explore how private and domestic and predominantly female spaces were imagined and employed in the early modern period

This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the p

This book argues that the early modern public/private boundary was surprisingly dynamic and flexible in early modern literature, drawing upon authors including

Studying a variety of literary forms - autobiographical writings, diaries, mothers' advice books, poetry and drama - this book approaches early modern women's s