English Women's Poetry, 1649-1714 John Zils Author(s): Kelly Bigwood

Author(s): Kelly Bigwood

After covering basic concepts and background

Ivo Zander

and political worlds of the later Stuart age

English Women's Poetry, 1649-1714 John Zils Author(s): Kelly BigwoodThis is the first study to reconstruct the political origins of English women's poetry between the execution of Charles I and the death of Queen Anne. Carol Barash's book shows that, between Katherine Philips (1632 1664) and Anne finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661 1720), and English women's poetic tradition developed as part of the larger political shifts in these years and particularly in women's fascination with the figure of the female monarch.