Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-299).
Contents:
The instruction of a Christen woman (1530) / J. L. Vives, Richard Hyrde (trans.) -- Fouretene sermons (1550)/ Barnadine Ochyne, Lady Ann Cooke-Bacon (trans.) -- The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of women (1558) / John Knox -- The mirrour of princely deedes and knighthood (1578) / D. Ortunez de Calaharra, Margaret Tyler (trans.) -- A mirrhor mete for all mothers, matrones and maidens, intituled the mirrhor of modestie (1579) / Thomas Salter -- A handfull of holesome (though homelie) hearbs (1584) / Anne Wheathill -- A christal glasse, for Christian women (1591) / Philip Stubbes -- A discourse of life and death (1592) / Philippe de Mornay, Lady Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (trans.) -- Diary (1599-1605) / Lady Margaret Hoby -- Letters (1604-1607) / Maria Thynne / The arraignment of lewd, idle, froward and unconstant women (1615) / Joseph Swetnam -- A mouzell for Melastomus (1617) / Rachel Speght -- Ester hath hang'd Haman (1617) / Ester Sowernam -- The Countesse of Montgomeries Urania (1621) / Lady Mary Wroth -- The mothers blessing (1621) / Dorothy Leigh -- Of domesticall duties (1622) / William Gouge -- The Countesse of Lincolnes nurserie (1622) / Lady Elizabeth Clinton -- The life of the most honourable andvertous Lady, the La. Magdalen, Viscountesse Montague (1627) / Richard Smith, C. F. (trans.) -- Admirable events (1639) / John Peter Camus, Bishop of Belley, Susan du Verger (trans.) -- The Mid-wives just petition (1643) / Anon. -- Letters (1642-1643) / Lady Brilliana Harley -- Her appeal (1646) / Lady Eleanor Davies -- The first and second part of Gangraena: or a catalogue and discovery of many of the errors, heresies, blasphemies and pernicious practices of the sectaries of this time (1646) / Thomas Edwards -- The exceeding riches of grace advanced by the spirit of grace, in an empty nothing creature, viz. Mris. Sarah Wight (1647) / Henry Jessey -- A strange and true relation of a young woman possest with the Devill (1647) / James Dalton -- A vision: wherein is manifested the disease and cure of the kingdome (1648) / Elizabeth Poole -- Mrs. Cookes, Meditations (1649) -- Frances Cooke -- A continuation of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia (1651) / Anna Weamys -- Ohel or Beth-Shemesh. A tabernacle for the sun (1653) / John Rogers -- Letters (1653) / Dorothy Osborn -- Strange and wonderfull newes from White-Hall (1654) / Anna Trapnel -- A message from God, by a dumb woman (1653/4) / Elinor Channel -- To the priests and people of England we discharge our consciences, and give them warning (1655) / Priscilla Cotton and Mary Cole -- Nature's pictures, drawn by Fancies pencil to the life (1656) / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle -- The learned maid; or; whether a maid may be a scholar? a logick exercise (1659) / Anna Maria van Schurman, C. B. (trans.) -- 'The life and death of Mrs. Margaret Corbet, who dyed Anno Christi, (1656), from Samuel Clarke, Lives of ten eminent divines (1662) / Henry Wilkinson -- Womens speaking justified, proved and allowed of by the Scriptures (1666) / Margaret Fell -- Memoirs and meditations (1662-1671) / Lady Elizabeth DeLaval -- The midwives book (1671) / Jane Sharp
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