WOMEN POETS OF THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original pictorial boards, with titles in white to the spine and in white and gold to the upper board. With six black and white in-text illustrations. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. A lovely copy.

This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the five most polific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Pulter, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. Winner of the 2018 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Award for 'Best Teaching Edition'.