Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760
Contributors: Clare Brant (Editor); Diane Purkiss (Editor)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780415053693
First sentence: Everybody who knows anything about Aemilia Lanyer, author of the first original poem by a woman to be published in the seventeenth century, knows that she had black eyes, black hair and a dark past.