Introduction

This volume reproduces twenty short texts written by named and unnamed women in the years 1641-1700. These texts, selected and introduced by various hands, are grouped in thematic clusters for the reader's ease - poetry on religion, on politics, on society, on domestic/social affairs and on mourning.

Arrangement

The poems are arranged chronologically within each cluster.

Conclusion

The volume closes with Anne Wentworth's pamphlet England's Spiritual Pill.