Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-246) and index.
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Alphra Behn (1640?-89): Virginia Woolf and the 'Little gods of love' / Susan Wiseman -- Anne Killigrew (1660-85): ' ... let 'em rage, and 'gainst a maide conspire' / David E. Shuttleton -- Jane Barker (1652-1732): From Galesia to Mrs. Goodwife / Carol Shiner Wilson -- Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710): Poet, protofeminist and patron / Rebecca M. Mills -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720): Sorrow into song / Jane Spencer -- Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674-1737): Politics, passion and piety / Sarah Prescott -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Haughty mind, warm blood and the 'Demon of Poesie' / Jennifer Keith -- Mary Leapor (1722-46): Menial labour and poetic aspiration / Valerie Rumbold -- Imagining the woman poet: creative female bodies / Jane Spencer -- Rank, community and audience: the social range of women's poetry / Valerie Rumbold -- From Manuscript to print: a volume of their own? / Margaret J.M. Ezell -- Women in the literary market place: pimping in Grub Street / Germaine Greer -- Classical and biblical models: the female poetic tradition / Claudia Thoms Kairoff -- Political verse and satire: monarchy, party and female political agency / Kathryn R. King -- The labouring-class women poets: 'Hard labour we most chearfully pursue' / Donna Landry.
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The specially commissioned essays in Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 address the multiplicity of female poetic practice and the public image of the woman poet between the Restoration and mid-eighteenth century. The volume includes biographically informative accounts of individual poets alongside detailed essays that discuss the different contexts and poetic traditions shaping women's poetry in this key period in literary history. Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 draws together a wealth of recent scholarship from a strong cast of contributors (including Germaine Greer) into one accessible volume aimed at both students and specialist readers.
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English poetry-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
English poetry-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
English poetry-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 17th century.
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.