Renaissance Women Online
An excellent resource, this site has texts by many early seventeenth-century women writers such as Elizabeth Cary, Aemilia Lanyer, and Margaret Cavendish, among others. (Brown University)
"Transgressing Boundaries: Women's Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation"
Janet Clare's (University College, Dublin) article in the March 1996 edition of the electronic journal
Renaissance Forum
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Education of Upper-Class Englishwomen in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
An extensive bibliography compiled by Sharon Deborah Michalove. (Online Reference Book Encyclopedia for Medieval Studies)
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Religious and Legal Norms
The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony,
The Book of Common Prayer
T. E. (?),
The Law's Resolutions of Women's Rights
Advice Books
John Dod and Robert Cleaver,
A Godly Form of Household Government
Gervase Markham,
The English Hus-wife
Richard Brathwaite,
The English Gentlewoman
Thomas Fosset,
The Servant's Duty
John Dod,
A Plain and Familiar Exhortation of the Ten Commandments
Dorothy Leigh,
The Mother's Blessing
Two Households
The Sidneys of Penshurst
Penshurst Place
Lady Sidney and Her Children
Letters from Robert Sidney to Barbara
The Sackvilles of Knole
The Clifford Family "Great Picture"
Anne Clifford's Diary for 1616–19
Contesting Cultural Norms
Cross-Dressing
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Hic Mulier
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Haec Vir
Education of Women
- The Lady Falkland
- The Life of Mrs. Lucy Hutchinson
John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
Women's Public Speech
- The Petition of Divers Well-Affected Women
- Margaret Fell,
Women's Speaking Justified