This is the first, 10-book part of a two-part series on early modern Englishwomen's writings, and is designed to make these women's work more accessible to the reader. Each facsimile text is preceded by an introduction, overview, and biographical material concerning the writer.

’this...collection admirably achieves its stated purpose. Recommended for upper division undergraduate and graduate libraries maintaining comprehensive early modern collections’ Choice ’Travitsky and Cullen have done scholarship a service by making available facsimile editions of some eighteen published texts written or translated by early modern English women...contents are rich...physically beautiful pieces of work.’ Sixteenth Century Journal ’These facsimiles will be invaluable both to scholars seeking to retrace an editor’s logic,...bear witness to the excitement, energy, and careful labor that has been devoted to the resurrection of these works by early modern women...[and] represent an astonishing alteration of the field of early modern studies.’ Renaissance Quarterly