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In taking stock of the excellent collection of essays you have just read, at the cutting edge of current research, it may be useful to remember the time-lag between the concerns of contemporary academia and those of a wider public. If the early days of the printed book saw the simultaneous publication of some very new and some extremely time-worn manuscripts, the internet is producing a similar phenomenon. You can listen to the lives of Puritan women online. Not from the essays in this volume, but from James Anderson’s Memorable Women of the Puritan Times (1862).1
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James Anderson, Memorable Women of the Puritan Times, 2 vols (London, Glasgow and Edinburgh: Blackie and Son, 1862; reprint, Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria, 2001); readings available at the time of writing at http://puritanreadingsaloud.blogspot.com/.
Jennifer Summit, Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380–1589 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2000), pp. 138–57.
John Berryman, Collected Poems 1937–1971, ed. Charles Thornbury (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989), p. 135.
The Works of Anne Bradstreet, ed. Jeannine Hensley, foreword by Adrienne Rich (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967).
Diane Purkiss, Literature, Gender, and Politics during the English Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (New York: Picador, 2005), pp. 150–226; cf. her novel Gilead (London: Virago, 2005).
Michèle Le Doeuff, The Sex of Knowing, trans. Kathryn Hamer and Lorraine Code (New York and London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 1–2.
Robert C. Evans and Barbara Wiedemann (eds.), ‘My Name was Martha’: A Renaissance Woman’s Autobiographical poem by Martha Moulsworth (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1993), p. 5.
Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, ed. James Sutherland (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 34.
W. D. Macray, Annals of the Bodleian Library Oxford, 2nd edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890), pp. 419–24.
The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock, ed. Susan M. Felch (Tempe, Az: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999), p. 77.
Lock and Anne Cooke Bacon are discussed by Jane Stevenson, Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 267, 270–1; note her discussion of the Quaker Latin poet Mary Mollineux (pp. 380–1).
Joseph Wittreich, ‘Milton’s Transgressive Maneuvers: Receptions (Then and Now) and the Sexual Politics of Paradise Lost’ in John Rumrich and Stephen Dobranski (eds), Milton and Heresy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 244–66.
Lynette Hunter, The Letters of Dorothy Moore, 1612–64: The Friendships, Marriage, and Intellectual Life of a Seventeenth-Century Woman (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), p. xli.
For further discussion, see David Norbrook, ‘Autonomy and the Republic of Letters: Michèle Le Dceuff, Anna Maria van Schurman, and the History of Women Intellectuals’, Australian Journal of French Studies, 40 (2003), 275–87, and ‘Women, the Republic of Letters, and the Public Sphere in the Mid-Seventeenth Century’, Criticism, 46 (2004), 223–40.
Carol Pal, ‘Forming familles D’alliance: Intellectual Kinship in the Republic of Letters’, in Julie D. Campbell and Anne Larsen (ed.), Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 251–80.
Samuel Torshell, The Womans Glorie (London: G. M. for John Bellamie, 1645), pp. 34–72, translating van Schurman’s correspondence with Rivet. Torshell was a chaplain to Charles I’s daughter Elizabeth; the overall supervision of the royal children’s education was entrusted to John Dury, Dorothy Moore’s husband.
Anna Maria van Schurman, Whether a Christian Woman should be Educated and Other Writings, ed. Joyce L. Irwin (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998), p. 55.
Mordechai Feingold, ‘The Humanities’, in The History of the University of Oxford, iv: Seventeenth-Century Oxford, ed. Nicholas Tyacke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), pp. 211–357 (262–5).
Lucy Hutchinson, On the Principles of the Christian Religion, Addressed to her Daughter, and On Theology (London: Longman, Hurst, 1817), pp. 5–6.
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Norbrook, D. (2010). Afterword. In: Harris, J., Scott-Baumann, E. (eds) The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558–1680. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289727_16
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