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	:"One male author even revised the Bible to suit his purpose and message. Thomas Bentley in the introduction to ''Monument of Matrones'' (1582) quoted from Corinthians I, chapter II, verses four through sixteen, to set the scene for his large book of prayers and comment. To make certain that his readers understood the Biblical message, Bentley refined the passage with his own interpretations, placed in parentheses. This section of Paul's letters to the Corinthians suggests that women must cover their heads as a sign that they are under or subservient to man and God. But Bentley takes further liberties with the message by leaving out two verses, numbers eleven and twelve, and skipping without comment to thirteen. The two missing verses are the one part of the passage that stresses the interdependence and even equality of men and women, not the subservient role of women." (141)		:"One male author even revised the Bible to suit his purpose and message. Thomas Bentley in the introduction to ''Monument of Matrones'' (1582) quoted from Corinthians I, chapter II, verses four through sixteen, to set the scene for his large book of prayers and comment. To make certain that his readers understood the Biblical message, Bentley refined the passage with his own interpretations, placed in parentheses. This section of Paul's letters to the Corinthians suggests that women must cover their heads as a sign that they are under or subservient to man and God. But Bentley takes further liberties with the message by leaving out two verses, numbers eleven and twelve, and skipping without comment to thirteen. The two missing verses are the one part of the passage that stresses the interdependence and even equality of men and women, not the subservient role of women." (141)

			== Basic List of Books for Women, 1475-1640 ==

			Saint Bernard de Clairvaux, ''A rule of good life ... especiallie for virgins, and other religious woemen'' (1633)

			Richard Broughton, ''A manual of praiers used by the fathers of the primative church'' (1618) -- ladies' prayer book

			Giovanni Battista Ciotti, ''A book of curious and strange inventions, called the first part of needleworkes containing many singular and fine sortes of cut-workes ...'' (1596)

			Daniel Featley, ''Ancilla pietatis: or, the hand-maid to private devotion'' (1626)

			''A jewel for gentlewomen. Containing divers godly prayers, fit to comfort the wounded consciences of all penitent sinners.'' (1624)

			[Maidens crosse-rewe]. ''Here is a necessarye treatyse for all maner persons to reade, and hath to name, the maydens crosse rewe.'' (1540?)

			Mary, the Blessed Virgin, Monastery at Brussels. ''Statutes compyled for the better observation of th eholy rule of the most glorious father and patriarch S. Benedict.'' (1632)

			Richard Rowlands, ''Odes in imitation of the seaven penitential psalmes, with sundry other poemes and ditties tending to devotion and pietie.'' (1601)

			John Ryckes, ''The ymage of love.'' -- prayers and devotionals (1525); against the use of images

			''A schole-house for the needle.'' (1624)

			[A tablet for gentlewomen] -- 1574; prayers for women

			John Tayler, ''The needles excellency'' (1631)

			Edmund Tilney, ''A brief and pleasant discourse of duties in mariage, called the flower of friendshippe'' (1568)

			''A neawe treatys: as concernynge the excellency of the nedle worcke'' (1530?)

			Anne Wheathill, ''A handfull of holesome (though homelie) hearbes, gathered out of the goodlie garden of Gods most holie word'' (1584) -- general prayer book

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			:"little has been done to explain or even to note the parallel and rapid development in that one decade of a women's literature and the sudden growth of drama and fiction" (128)

			:"It might be reasoned that the immediate needs of the church were met by about 1570, and printers looked to other kinds of books to stay in business. ... Another answer may lie in the fact that two women in succession reigned in their own rights." (130)

			:"By 1640 reading by women was seldom attacked." -- even seem as necessary, as in DuBoscq's ''The Compleat Woman'' (1639) (131)

			:"By the early part of the seventeenth century words such as women, ladies, and maids were appearing more prominently in titles, particularly of plays" (136)

			:"One male author even revised the Bible to suit his purpose and message. Thomas Bentley in the introduction to ''Monument of Matrones'' (1582) quoted from Corinthians I, chapter II, verses four through sixteen, to set the scene for his large book of prayers and comment. To make certain that his readers understood the Biblical message, Bentley refined the passage with his own interpretations, placed in parentheses. This section of Paul's letters to the Corinthians suggests that women must cover their heads as a sign that they are under or subservient to man and God. But Bentley takes further liberties with the message by leaving out two verses, numbers eleven and twelve, and skipping without comment to thirteen. The two missing verses are the one part of the passage that stresses the interdependence and even equality of men and women, not the subservient role of women." (141)

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	== Books on the Controversy ==		== Books on the Controversy ==

			the controversy peaked in France around 1400 (107)

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			:"Women women learned to read in English, male (and even female) mentors frequently took the position that they should read only the good works of godly leaders. In spirte of these admonitions, surprisingly few editions of 'good works' were specifically addressed to women as a group." (91)

			:"''The Monument of Matrones'' came close to being an entire female library between two covers." (92)

			:"Among the prayer books known to have been read by some women but not directed to them as a group, was Queen Catherine Parr's ''Prayers or Medytacions'' (1545), a popular general prayer book commonly known as ''The Queenes Praiers''. It was combined in several editions with the ''Kinges Psalmes'' or ''Psalmes or Prayers taken out of Holye Scripture'' as a "Mr. And Mrs." devotional manual." (99)

			''The Mothers Blessing'' (1616), by Dorothy Leigh, ''The Mothers Legacie to Her Unborne Child'' (1624), by Elizabeth Joceline, and ''Miscelanea, Meditations, Memoratives'' (1604) by Elizabeth Grymeston -- women authors concerned with the religious upbringing of their children (101) -- went into multiple editions (102)

	== Books on the Controversy ==		== Books on the Controversy ==

	== Conclusion ==		== Conclusion ==

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	''A Delightfull Daily Exercise for Ladies and Gentlewomen'' (1621) included "an announcement on one of the supplementary pages that the bookseller also sold molds in which the recipes might be made" (44)		''A Delightfull Daily Exercise for Ladies and Gentlewomen'' (1621) included "an announcement on one of the supplementary pages that the bookseller also sold molds in which the recipes might be made" (44)

			Markham tries to explain why he can write for women by saying his book has been approved by a noble woman (45)

			''A neawe Treatys ... Concernynge ... Nedle Worcke (1530?) -- for "Craftmen but also for Gentlewemen" (46)

			knowledge of needlework gives entrance to noble circles -- poem (46)

			Vives, guide to all phases of female living; "devoted a whole chapter to the subject under the title, 'What bokes to be redde, and what not'" -- including classical, religious, and inspirational works (romances banned) (57)

			:"By the early seventeenth century the frivolity of the court and the strong in-roads of puritanical thought (strange bedfellows that they were) combined to dampen the earlier approach, and there was little encouragement for serious female studies." (60)

			''The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights: or, the Lawes Provision for Woemen'' (1632) -- explaining women's rights in law (62)

			:"Little attention has been given to the fact that these earliest English dictionaries, preceding Johnson's by about a century and a half, were actually published with women's needs in mind." (64)

			''The Virgin's A. B. C.'' (1630) -- stanzas based on alphabet letters, an "alphabet wong" for femals (65)

			Gerard's ''Herball,'' used for needlework designs (65)

	== The Recreational Literature ==		== The Recreational Literature ==

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			:"the emergence of women as a reading public, recognized by authors and booksellers, coincides with the fiction explosion in the last quarter of the sixteenth century and raises interesting questions on the possible influence of women on the development of literature in the late Elizabethan period." (75)

			:"By the last quarter of the 16th century a few works of fiction were printed with a female character as the only name in the title, for example: ''Mamillia'' (1583), ''The Adventures of Ladie Egerie'' (1584), ''Penelopes Web'' (1587), ''Penelopes Complaint'' (1596), and ''Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legend'' (1590)." (78) -- not all are addressed to women or could be classified as "women's literature" though (78)

			Barnabe Rich often directed his books to women through special dedications and introductions (80)

			authors like Brathwaite could appear on two sides of an argument about women's conduct (83)

			Heywood, ''Gunaikeion: Or Nine Bookes of Various History Conerninge Women'' (1624), ''The Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts of Nine the Most Worthy Women of the World'' (1640) (84)

			"One book, clearly directed to a female audience, is puzzling. Why women would be particularly interested in Nicholas Flamel, a fifteenth-century alchemist, is hard to figure, but a translation of ''His Exposition of the HIeroglyphicall Figures ... Which He Caused to Bee Painted Upon an Arch in St. Innocents Church-yard, in Paris'' (1624) was indeed published for an individual layd 'and such as you are.'" (86)

			:"Literary criticism is hardly a sex-linked problem, but it is interesting to note that one of the early critical literary debates was, at least in part, directed to women." (88) -- Sidney v. Gosson

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	:"A dedication to a group of women or a title page directing the work to women is the most reliable evidence that a book was intended for women. But not all books that were eventually dedicated or directed to women started that way. There is interesting evidence that authors and booksellers became increasingly conscious of women readers, particularly in the 1570s and 1580s. During this time some books originally addressed to men or not to any special group were rededicated or retitled in later editions to include women." (10)		:"A dedication to a group of women or a title page directing the work to women is the most reliable evidence that a book was intended for women. But not all books that were eventually dedicated or directed to women started that way. There is interesting evidence that authors and booksellers became increasingly conscious of women readers, particularly in the 1570s and 1580s. During this time some books originally addressed to men or not to any special group were rededicated or retitled in later editions to include women." (10)

			directed to a female audience: Castiglione's ''Courtyer'' (1561), Sidney's ''Arcadia'' (1590), Lyly's ''Euphues and His England'' (1580), Spenser's ''Faerie Queene'' (1590), Rich's ''Farewell to Militarie Profession'' (1581), Florio's translation of Montaigne's ''Essayes'' (1603), 1636 translation of Ovid's ''Epistles'' (14)

			:"Most of the early books for women were small in size. Of the 163 titles in the Basic List, 69 were, in their first editions, octavos or smaller -- books that could easily be carried in a pocket. Only five were folios. Over half, 89, were the common quarto. Few women's books were printed and bound as elegant gift volumes. In fact, so few copies of many early books for women have survived that it oculd be concluded that women's books were often worn out with practical use, or considered ephemeral or of little value as succeeding generations developed newer guides and literature for women." (16)

			:"Men wrote almost all the women's books printed before 1640. According to Carroll Camden only 85 books written by women were published in English before 1640, though newer evidence may increase that figure." (16)

			:"Altogether some 800 different women were the targets of dedications or had books addressed to them in some manner. Most of the women were members of the aristocracy; 225 were nontitled women; another 25 had religious associations (as nuns, prioresses, abbesses, or saints). This number of female dedicatees would seem to indicate broad acceptance of women as patronesses of literature." (21)

			:"Twenty percent of the early books for women are translations." (25)

			:"The three earliest English dictionaries were all addressed, at least in part, to women." (27)

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== An Emerging Female Literature ==

== The Practical Guidebooks ==

== The Recreational Literature ==

== Devotional Books ==

== Books on the Controversy ==

== Conclusion ==