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| List of Illustrations General | |
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| Introduction The Fourteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries | |
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| A Historical Overview, 1300-1700 Women''s Place in Society | |
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| The Dispossessed Owning Their Words | |
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| Women''s Writing, 1300-1700 Timeline Julian of Norwich (c. 1342-c. 1416; England) FromRevelation of Divine Love | |
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| The illness thus obtained from God | |
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| God is all that is good | |
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| Wickedness is transformed into blessedness | |
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| We are brought back and fulfilled by our Mother Jesus Margery Kempe (c. 1373-c. 1438; England) From The Book of Margery Kempe | |
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| Margery's First Vision | |
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| Margery Reaches a Settlement with Her Husband | |
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| Margery's encounter with the Mayor of Leicester Anne Askew (c. 1521-1546; England) | |
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| The Ballad Which Anne Askew Made and Sang when She Was in New gate From The Latter Examination | |
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| The Sum of my Examination afore the King's Council at Greenwich Cultural Coordinates | |
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| Needlework Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603; England) The Dread of Future Woes | |
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| A Song Made by Her Majesty Isabella Whitney (c. 1540s-c. 1578; England) | |
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| The Manner of Her Will, and What She Left to London and to All Those In It | |
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| At Her Departing Mary Sidney Herbert | |
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| Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621; England) | |
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| A Dialogue Between Two Shepherds | |
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| Thenot and Piers, in Praise of Astraea Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645; England) From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum | |
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| To the Virtuous Reader Eve's Apology in Defence of Women | |
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| The Description of Cooke-ham Cultural Coordinates | |
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| Household Space Lady Margaret Cunningham (c. 1580-c. 1622; Scotland) From A Part of the Life of Lady Margaret Cuninghame | |
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| Daughter of the Earl of Glencairn | |
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| That She Had with Her First Husband | |
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| the Master of Evandale [An account of domestic abuse] Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1586-c. 1651; England) FromPamphilia to Amphilanthus | |
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| [When night's black mantle could most darkness prove] | |
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| [Cloyed with the torments of a tedious night] | |
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| [Dear famish not what you yourself gave food] | |
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| [Am I thus conquered] | |
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| [Come darkest night] | |
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| [Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun] Lady Anne Clifford (1590-1676; England) From The Diary of Lady Anne Clifford (1616-1619) | |
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| February 1616 [Meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury] | |
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| March 1616 [A refusal to capitulate] | |
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| April 1616 [From London to Knole] | |
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| May 1616 [Her mother dies] Cultural Coordinates | |
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| Scolds Dorothy Leigh (Active c. 1616; England) FromThe Mothers Blessing | |
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| To My Beloved Sons, George, John, and William Leigh | |
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| All Things Pertaining to Life and Godliness | |
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| The First Cause of Writing Is a Motherly Affection | |
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| It Is Great Folly For a Man to Mislike His Own Choice Elizabeth Brooke Jocelin (c. 1595-1622; England) From The Mother's Legacy to Her Unborn Child Epistle Dedicatory | |
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| To My Truly Loving and Most Dearly Loved Husband | |
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| Turrell Jocelin Cultural Coordinates | |
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| Women's Community in Childbirth Rooms (illus.) Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672; England, American colonies) FromThe Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America | |
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| The Prologue The Author to Her Book Before the Birth of one of her Children | |
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| In Memory of my Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House | |
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| To My Dear and Loving Husband Margaret Fell Fox (1614-1702; England) | |
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| From Women's Speaking Justified [The Church of Christ Is a Woman] | |
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| Lady Anne Halkett (c. 1622-1699; England) From Memoirs: [Her mother threatens to disown her] Margaret Lucas Cavendish | |
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| Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1674; England) From Philosophical and Physical Opinions Epistle | |
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| To the most famously learned FromPhilosophical Letters | |
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| or, Modest Reflections Letter XXXVI [Other Creatures May Be as Wise as Men] Mary Boyle Rich (c. 1624-1678; Ireland, England) FromDiary [Events of 1624-43, Including a Complicated Romantic Affair] Cultural Coordinates | |
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| Women's Spiritual Diaries (illus.) | |
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| Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton (1626-1663; England) | |
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| From Loose Papers When I Lost My Dear Girl Kate Katherine Fowler Philips (c. 1631-1664; England) | |
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| A Married State Upon the Double Murder of K. Charles | |
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| I On the Death of My First and Dearest Child | |
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| Hector Philips Friendship's Mystery | |
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| To My Dearest Lucasia To My Excellent Lucasia | |
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| On Our Friendship Orinda to Lucasia Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711; England American colonies) | |
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| From A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs | |
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| Mary Rowlandson The First Remove | |
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| The Third Remove From The Twentieth Remove Aphra Behn (c. 1640-1689; England) | |
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| The Rover Cultural Coordinates | |
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| Restoration Actresses (illus.) | |
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| Anne Killigrew (c. 1660-1685; England) | |
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| A Farewell to Worldly Joys Upon the Saying That My Verses Were Made by Another | |
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| The Discontent Anne Finch (1661-1720; England) | |
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| A Letter to Daphnis The Introduction Ardelia to Melancholy | |
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| To the Nightingale The Apology A Nocturnal Reverie Cultural Coordinates | |
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| Menstruation and Misogyny Jane Sharp (Active c. 1671; England) | |
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| From The Midwives Book Of the Fashion and Greatness of the Womb | |
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| and of the Parts It Is Made Of The Eighteenth Century Timeline | |
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| Eighteenth Century Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762; England) | |
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| From Turkish Embassy Letters Letter XXVII [A Visit to a Turkish Bath] | |
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| Letter XLI [Sultana Halfise] | |
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| Eliza Haywood (c.1693-1756; England) | |
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| The Dangers of Tea Mary Leapor (1722-1746: England) | |
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| Crumble Hall An Essay on Woman The Headache Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814; United States) | |
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| An Address to the Inhabitants of the United States Janet Schaw (c. 1734-1801; Scotland) | |
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| From Journal of a Lady of Quality | |
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| Being a Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies [Society in Antigua] [A Visit to Olovaze] Cultural Coordinates | |
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| At Sea (illus.) Mary Collier (Active 1739-1760; England) The Woman's Labour Anna Laetitia Akin Barbauld (1743-1825; England) | |
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| The Rights of Woman To a Little Invisible Being | |
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| Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible Washing-Day Abigail Adams (1744-1818; United States) | |
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| From The Adams Family Correspondence [The Nature of Woman's Experience] [Remember the Ladies] [Education in the New Republic] Cultural Coordinates | |
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| Bluestockings (illus.) Hannah More (1745-1833; England) FromStrictures on a Modern System of Female Education Chapter 1, An Address to Women of Rank and Fortune The Black Slave Tr | |