1st Edition

Women's Political Writings, 1610-1725 Vol 2

    398 Pages
    by Routledge

    Includes a variety of women's political writings from the Seventeenth Century. This collection highlights the principles inherent in female political action in its many and varied forms, from women's Civil War petitioning, to the efforts of Quaker women to reform prisons.

    Volume 2 Introduction ‘The Humble Petition of Many Th ousands of Courtiers, Citizens, Gentlemen, and Trades-mens Wives’, Severall Petitions Presented to the Honourable Houses of Parliament Now Assembled (1641) The Humble Petition of Divers Gentle-women, Citizens Wives, Tradesmens Wives [1641/2] The Humble Petition of Many Hundreds of Distressed Women, Trades-mens Wives, and Widdowes [1642] A True Copie of the Petition of the Gentlewomen, and Tradesmens-wives, in and about the City of London (1641) The Humble Petition of Elizabeth Lilburne, Wife to Leut. Coll: John Lilburne [1646] The Humble Appeale and Petition of Mary Overton, Prisoner in Bridewell [1646] The Humble Petition of Divers Wel- Women [first Leveller petition] (1649) The Humble Petition of Divers Well-affected Women [second Leveller petition] [1649] The Womens Petition … The Humble Petition of Many Thousands of the Poor Enslaved, Oppressed and Distressed Men and Women in this Land (1651) The Humble Petition of Divers Afflicted Women, in Behalf of M: John Lilburne Prisoner in Newgate [1653] Elizabeth Poole, A Vision: Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the Kingdome [1649] Elizabeth Poole, An Alarum of War, Given to the Army, and to their High Court of Justice (1649) Mary Pope, A Treatise of Magistracy (1647) Mary Pope, Behold, Here is A Word or, An Answer to the Late Remonstrance of the Army [1648] Mary Cary, A Word in Season to the Kingdom of England (1647) Mary Cary, The Little Horns Doom and Downfall (1651) Mary Cary, Twelve Humble Proposals (1653) Anna Trapnel, The Cry of a Stone (1654) Anna Trapnel, Strange and Wonderful Newes fr om White-Hall (1654) Margaret Beck, The Reward of Oppression, Tyranny and Injustice, (1655) Mary Howgill, A Remarkable Letter of Mary Howgill to Oliver Cromwel, Called Protector (1657) Mary Howgill, The Vision of the Lord of Hosts (1662) Priscilla Cotton, A Briefe Description by Way of Supposition … wherein a True Commonwealth Consisteth [1659] Susan Fielding, Letters to Basil Fielding [1642] Sarah Jinner, An Almanack: Or, Prognostication for the Year of Our Lord, 1658 (1658), excerpts Sarah Jinner, An Almanack and Prognostication for the Year of Our Lord, 1659 (1659), excerpts Sarah Jinner, An Almanack: Or, Prognostication for the Year of Our Lord, 1660 (1660), excerpts Sarah Jinner, An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God, 1664 (1664), Excerpt An Collins, ‘A Song Composed in Time of the Civill Warr’, Divine Song and Meditacions (1653) An Collins, ‘Another song’, Divine Song and Meditacions (1653) Anne Bradstreet, ‘A Dialogue between Old England and New, Concerning Their Present Troubles’, The Tenth Muse (1650) Anne Bradstreet, ‘In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth, of Most Happy Memory’, The Tenth Muse (1650)

    Biography

    Hilda L Smith, Mihoko Suzuki, Susan Wiseman