News from the Midell regions and Calthorpe's chapel
Dorothy Calthorpe (Author), Julie A. Eckerle (Editor)
"This first print edition of two extant manuscripts by Dorothy Calthorpe (1648-1693) introduces a new seventeenth-century woman writer to the growing canon of early modern female authors. The edition provides transcriptions of the manuscripts and Calthorpe's will, as well as an apparatus that features a comprehensive introduction to Calthorpe, her family, and her work; a Glossary of Persons who figured in her writing and her life; and two genealogical charts. Ultimately, Calthorpe's writings (including both prose and verse ranging from Petrachan love poems to roman à clef and devotional verse), and the thoughtfully constructed and illustrated volumes in which her texts appear, demonstrate the rich intellectual life of a previously unknown female writer and provide a compelling example of Restoration manuscript production"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2022
Iter Press, New York, 2022