Title: Women, writing, and language in early modern Ireland
Description: This study discusses women's writing in early modern Ireland. It explores the ways in which women contributed to the power struggles of the period, how they strove to be heard, forged space for their voices, and engaged with new and native language-traditions to produce petition-letters, depositions, poetry, and autobiography.
Subjects: English literature, Intellectual life, History and criticism, Women authors, Women and literature, History, Irish literature, Irish authors, Women, English literature, irish authors, history and criticism, English literature, women authors, Ireland, intellectual life
Places: Ireland
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, 17th century, 16th century