1st Edition
Women's Political Writings, 1610-1725 Vol 4
392 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 4 Introduction Mary Astell, An Impartial Enquiry into the Causes of Rebellion and Civil War in this Kingdom (1704) Mary Astell, The Christian Religion, as Profess’d by a Daughter of the Church of England ([1705], 3rd edn, 1730), excerpts [Queen Anne], A Collection of All Her Majesty’s Speeches, Messages, &c (1712), excerpts [Thomas Salmon], The Life of Her Late Majesty Queen Anne (1721), excerpts Sarah Churchill, ‘An Account of King William and Queen Mary’s Undeserv’d Ill Treatment of Her Sister, the Princess of Denmark’ [1704] Sarah Churchill, ‘Vindication of her Conduct’ [1711] Elizabeth Lechmere, Selection of Letters to Sarah Churchill [1722–3] The Sisters of Chaillot, Memoirs of King James II (1702), excerpt Jane Barker, ‘A Collection of Poems Refering to the Times; since the Kings Accession to the Crown’ [1700] Catharine Trotter, A Poem on His Grace the Duke of Marlborough’s Return from His German Expedition (1705) Catharine Trotter, ‘On His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, Aft er His Victory at Ramellies, in 1706’, The Works of Mrs. Catharine Cockburn (1751) Susanna Centlivre, An Epistle to the King of Sweden, fr om a Lady of Great[1]Britain (1717) Susanna Centlivre, A Woman’s Case: In An Epistle to Charles Joye, Esq. (1720) [Mary Pix], The Czar of Muscovy (1701) Jane Wiseman, Antiochus the Great (1702) Wedlock a Paradice; Or, A Defence of Woman’s Liberty against Man’s Tyranny (1701) Mary Chudleigh, Essays upon Several Subjects in Prose and Verse (1710), excerpt Elizabeth Elstob, The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue (1715), excerpt Index
Biography
Hilda L Smith, Mihoko Suzuki, Susan Wiseman
