Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century

During the 17th century the creative outpourings of European women increased dramatically as they began to address -- through poems, plays, letters, & prose fiction -- the subject of women s condition & potential. This anthology presents the works of 19 authors from France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, & Hungary. Includes: Aphra Behn, the first woman to earn her living by her pen, a dramatist, lyric poet, & a founder of the English novel; Ludamilia Elisabeth von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, whose verse contributed to the formation of the religious vernacular in Germ.; & Mme de Sevigne, the most prolific epistolary writer of the age.

Contents:
Indhold: Marie de Gournay / Maja Bijvoet --
Madame de Sévigné / JeanneA. Ojala and William T. Ojala --
Madame de LaFayette / Ronald Bogue --
Madame d'Aulnoy / Glenda K. McLeod --
Camilla Faà Gonzaga / Valeria Finucci --
Maria Tesselschade / Ria Vanderauwera --
Anna Maria van Schurman / Joyce L. Irwin --
María de Zayas y Sotomayor / Peter Cocozzella --
Ana Caro / Ruth Lundelius --
Mariana de Carvajal / Noël M . Valis --
Bathsua Makin / Frances Teague --
Margaret Lucas Cavendish / Moira Ferguson --
Aphra Behn / Mary Ann O'Donnell --
Leonora Christina / Sverre Lyngstad --
Queen Christina of Sweden / Jeanette Lee Atkinson . Sibylle Schwarz / Susan L. Clark --
Catharina von Greiffenberg / Helene M. Kastinger Riley --
Ludamilia Elisabeth / Brigitte Edith Zapp Archibald --
Kata Szidónia Petróczi / Eniko Molnár Basa.