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Agnes of Eltham. Elizabeth Amadas. Mary Ambree. Anne of Denmark. Anne of York (daughter of Edward IV) Cordell Annesley. Joan Apsley. Alice Arden. Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel.
author of at least six plays; [2] daughter of James Boaden. Booth, Ursula Agnes. 1740–1803. actor who wrote at least one farce [1][3] Boothby, Frances. 1669–1670 (fl.) author of the first original play by a woman to be produced in London. Bourchier, Rachel (Countess of Bath; née Fane) 1613–1680.
Mercy Short, age 17 and living in Boston. Martha Sprague, age 16 and living in Andover. Timothy Swan, age 29 and living in Andover. He died on February 2, 1693. Mary Thorne, age about 14 and living in Ipswich. Mary Walcott, age 17 and living in Salem Village/Danvers. Mary Warren – age about 20 and living in Salem.
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. Lonsdale, Roger ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
In medieval times, women had responsibility for brewing and selling the ale that men all drank. By 1600, men had taken over that role. The reasons include commercial growth, gild formation, changing technologies, new regulations, and widespread prejudices that associated female brewsters with drunkenness and disorder.
This is an alphabetical list of female novelists who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800. "Beauty in search of knowledge". (Young woman in front of a circulating library, where most readers accessed novels in the 18th century.
W. Anne Seymour, Countess of Warwick. Elizabeth Jane Weston. Anne Wheathill. Isabella Whitney. Categories: 16th-century English writers. 16th-century women writers. 16th-century English women.
Category:16th-century women writers. Category. : 16th-century women writers. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:16th-century writers. It includes writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.