This anthology brings together a broad selection of British women's writings from the Early Modern period, most of which are unavailable elsewhere. Unlike many anthologies in the field, this one is multigenre, including poetry, literary prose, polemical prose, and drama. Full texts and substantial extracts are included. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized. Augmenting the texts are brief biographies, bibliographies, an index oa themes, and a general introduction covering the wider social and religious context in which women wrote and elucidating issues of feminism and feminine authorship, and of early New England colonialism..