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The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)
The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght - Women Writers in English 1350-1850
Author: Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Rachel Speght was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unmistakably and by name, as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This edition includes her polemical foray into the Jacobean gender wars and her collected poems. Speght's tract, A Mouzzell for Melastomus (1617), is at once a spirited answer to Joseph Swetnam's att...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195086157
ISBN-10: 0195086155
Publication Date: 5/14/1996
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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