1st Edition

Women's Political Writings, 1610-1725 Vol 3

    342 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 3 Introduction Margaret Fell, A Declaration and an Information fr om Us the People of God Called Quakers (1660) Margaret Fell, A Letter Sent to the King fr om M. F. ... thereunto Annexed a Paper Written unto the Magistrates in 1664 (1666) Elizabeth Hooton, [‘King Charles, Consider this att the Last’] Elizabeth Hooton, [‘King Charles – How oft have I come to thee’] Elizabeth Hooton, [‘E.H. Prisoner in Lincoln Castle, Pleads to him’] Elizabeth Hooton, ‘To the King and both Houses of Parliament’, in Thomas Taylor, To the King (1670) Elizabeth Hooton, [‘To the King: still a cry for justice’] Elizabeth Hooton, [‘El. Hootton to the Bench to set James Holydale free’] Dorothy White, Th is to be Delivered to the Counsellors that Are Sitting in Counsel (1659) Dorothy White, An Alarm Sounded to Englands Inhabitants (1661) Dorothy White, An Alarum Sounded Forth fr om the Lord God of Vengeance (1662) Dorothy White, [Friends, You that are of the Parliament, hear the Word of the Lord] [1662] Mary Smith, [These few Lines](1667) Judith Boulbie, To All Justices of Peace or Other Magistrates to Whom This May Come (1667) Margaret Braister, A Warning to the Rulers and Magistrates of New England (1678) Joan Vokins, A Loving Advertisment (1670) Anne Dowcra, A Looking-Glass for the Recorder and Justices of the Peace [1682] Anne Dowcra, An Epistle of Love and Good Advice (1683) Rachel Russell, Selection of Letters 1677–1691 Elizabeth Cellier, Malice Defeated (1680) Elizabeth Cellier, ‘A Scheme for the Foundation of a Royal Hospital’(1687) Elinor James, To the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen. [1683] Elinor James, Mrs. James’s Defence of the Church of England (1687) Elinor James, Mrs. James’s Vindication of the Church of England (1687) Elinor James, To the Right Honourable the House of Lords [1688] Elinor James, [May it please your Majesty, to accept my thanks][1688] [Elinor James], An Injur’d Prince Vindicated [1688] Elinor James, My Lords [An Address to the House of Lords] [1688] Alicia D’Anvers, Poem upon His Sacred Majesty, His Voyage for Holland (1691) Joan Whitrowe, The Humble Address of the Widow Whitrowe to King William (1689) Joan Whitrowe, To Queen Mary: The Humble Salutation and Faithful Greeting (1690) Joan Whitrowe, The Widow Whiterows Humble Th anksgiving for the Kings Safe Return (1694), excerpts Joan Whitrowe, Faithful Warnings, Expostulations and Exhortations (1697), excerpts Katherine Philips, ‘Upon the Double Murther of K. Charles I.’, Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664) Katherine Philips, ‘On the Numerous Access of the English to Wait Upon the King in Flanders’, Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664) Katherine Philips, ‘Arion to a Dolphin, on His Majesty’s Passage into England’, Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664) Katherine Philips, ‘On the Fair Weather just at Coronation’, Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664) Katherine Philips, ‘To the Queen’s Majesty on Her Arrival at Portsmouth, May 14.1662’, Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664) Katherine Philips, ‘To the Queen-mother’s Majesty, 1 January 1660/1’, Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664) Katherine Philips, ‘Upon the Princess Royal Her Return into England’, Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664) Katherine Philips, ‘On the Death of the Illustrious Duke of Gloucester’, Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664)Katherine Philips, ‘To Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York’, Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664) Katherine Philips, ‘On the Death of the Queen of Bohemia’, Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664) Katherine Philips, ‘On the 3. of September, 1651’, Poems by the Incomparable, Mrs. K. P. (1664) Katherine Philips, ‘On the Welch Language’, Poems by the Most Deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda (1667) Rachel Jevon, Exultationis Carmen. To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty Upon His Most Desired Return (1660) Ephelia, ‘A Poem Presented to His Sacred Majesty on the Discovery of the Plot’, Female Poems on Several Occasions, Written by Ephelia (1679) Ephelia, ‘Advice to His Grace’ [1681] Elizabeth Singer Rowe, ‘A Poetical Question Concerning the Jacobites, Sent to the Athenians’, Poems on Several Occasions (1696) Elizabeth Singer Rowe, ‘The Athenians Answer’, Poems on Several Occasions (1696) Elizabeth Singer Rowe, ‘Upon King William’s Passying the Boyn’, Poems on Several Occasions (1696) Elizabeth Johnson, ‘Preface’ to Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Poems on Several Occasions (1696)

    Biography

    Hilda L Smith, Mihoko Suzuki, Susan Wiseman