Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century

During the 17th century the creative outpourings of European women increased dramatically as they began to address -- through poems, plays, letters, and prose fiction -- the subject of women¹s condition and potential. This anthology presents the works of 19 authors from France, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, and Hungary. Includes: Aphra Behn, ³the first woman to earn her living by her pen,² a dramatist, lyric poet, and a founder of the English novel; Ludamilia Elisabeth von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, whose verse contributed to the formation of the religious vernacular in Germ.; and Mme de Sevigne, the most prolific epistolary writer of the age.Wilson, Katharina M. is the author of 'Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century', published 2002 under ISBN 9780756756895 and ISBN 0756756898.