Includes bibliographical references (pages 16-22) and index.
Contents
Feminist criticism and seventeenth-century women writers -- From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ; The description of Cookham / Aemilia Lanyer -- The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry / Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland -- Sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus -- From the Countess of Montgomery's Urania / Lady Mary Wroth -- From CCXI sociable letters / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle -- Selected poems / Katherine Philips -- The rover, or the banished cavaliers ; Selected poems / Aphra Behn -- Selected poems / Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea -- The Swetnam controversy and defense of women -- From a muzzle for melastomus / Rachel Speght -- From Esther hath hang'd Haman / Ester Sowernam.