First feminists : British women writers, 1578-1799 /
"'Moira Ferguson has selected wisely from well-known and little-known figures and from fiction, polemic and poetry to illustrate the long and diverse history of feminist reflection up to and including Mary Wollstonecraft ... Good reading for scholars and a fine book for classroom use'...
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Bloomington : Old Westbury, N.Y. :
Indiana University Press ; Feminist Press,
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Table of Contents:
- From The translation of the first part of The mirrour of princely deedes and knyghthood. Dedication to the Right Honourable the Lord Thomas Howard / Margaret Tyler
- Jane Anger : her protection for women / Jane Anger
- From Ester hath hang'd Haman. Address (To all right honourable, noble, and worthy ladies, gentlewomen, and others, vertuously disposed, of the faeminine sexe) / Ester Sowernam
- A defence of women : poem concluding Ester Sowernam's Ester hath hang'd Haman / Joane Sharp
- From Philosophical and physical opinions. Preface, To the two most famous universities of England ; From The convent of pleasure / Margaret Lucas Cavendish
- From Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philips. The matchless Orinda / Katherine Fowler Philips
- From Womens speaking justified / Margaret Askew Fell Fox
- From An essay to revive the antient education of gentlewomen / Bathsua Pell Makin
- From the Dutch Lover. Preface / Aphra Behn
- From Sir Patient Fancy. Epilogue / Aphra Behn
- From Lycidus, or, the lover in fashion ; From translation by Behn of La pluralité des deux mondes, or, The theory or system of several new inhabited worlds. The author's preface / Aphra Behn
- From The female advocate ; From Poems on several occasions / Sara Fyge Field Egerton
- From Poetical recreations ; From A patch-work screen for the ladies / Jane Barker
- From A serious proposal to the ladies ; From Some reflections upon marriage ; From The complete letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, vol. 1. Preface to the embassy letters / Mary Astell
- From An essay in defence of the female sex / Judith Drake.
- The ladies defence, including prefatory material ; From Poems on several occasions / Mary Lee
- From An English-Saxon Homily. Preface / Elizabeth Elstob
- From Miscellany poems, on several occasions ; From The poems of Anne, Countess of Winchelsea / Anne Kingsmill Finch
- The woman's labour ; From Poems, on several occations including some remarks of the author's life drawn by herself / Mary Collier
- From Woman not inferior to man ; From Woman's superior excellence over man / Sophia
- From A narrative of the life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, including The author to herself / Charlotte Cibber Charke
- From A description of Millenium Hall / Sarah Robinson Scott
- From A series of letters between Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot / Elizabeth Carter
- From The female advocate / Mary Scott (Taylor)
- From The Hamwood papers of the ladies of Llangollen / Eleanor Butler
- From Poems on various subjects, autobiographical narrative ; A poem on the inhumanity of the slave-trade / Ann Cromartie Yearsley
- From Letters on education / Catherine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham
- From Monthly magazine. July 2, 1796 ; March 2, 1797 / Mary Hays
- From A vindication of the rights of woman ; From The wrongs of woman, or, Maria / Mary Wollstonecraft
- From The female advocate / Mary Ann Radcliffe.