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ASIN: 0374521646
ID #107207
Product Type: Book
Reviewer: Tami Author Icon
Review Rated: E
Amazon's Price: $ 6.94
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Summary of this Book...
This is a very good anthology of seventeenth century women's verse. The 25 pages of bibliography in the back of the book alone is worth the price paid for this book.
This type of Book is good for...
This anthology is good for researching women's writing and for discovering women's ways of thinking within a historical perspective.
I especially liked...
The poetry. It's wonderful reading.
I didn't like...
I didn't like that the short biographies were delivered in a more scholarly than conversational voice.
When I finished reading this Book I wanted to...
Find out more about the women who's work was presented in this anthology.
This Book made me feel...
Like finding more work by these women.
The author of this Book...
This book is edited by Germaine Greer, Susan Hasings, Jeslyn Medoff, and Melinda Sansone. Writer's and/or teachers of history and/or women's studies.
I recommend this Book because...
It's exciting to read of women's political and philosophical views from this time period.
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