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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:16th-century English writers. It includes English writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:16th-century English male writers
Lady Mary Wroth (née Sidney; 18 October 1587 [1] – 1651/3) was an English noblewoman and a poet of the English Renaissance. A member of a distinguished literary family, Lady Wroth was among the first female English writers to have achieved an enduring reputation.
Helen Gray Cone (1859–1934), American poet and professor of English literature; Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850–1887), Canadian poet; Anne Virginia Culbertson (1857–1918), American poet, writer; Miriam Del Banco (1858–1931), American poet; Belle R. Harrison (1856–1940), American poet and short story writer
Isabella Whitney pioneered her field of women poets. While a lot of her practices (familiar allusions, exaggerations, the ballad measure) were common for contemporary male authors of the mid-sixteenth century, as a woman she was quite the trendsetter (in both her epistles and mock testament). [7]
Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and is one of the most splendid ages of English literature.In addition to drama and the theatre, it saw a flowering of poetry, with new forms like the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, and dramatic blank verse, as well as prose, including historical chronicles, pamphlets, and the first ...
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990. (Internet Archive) Buck, Claire, ed.The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992. (Internet Archive) Greer, Germaine, ed. Kissing the Rod: an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988.
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