Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
3-19-2021
Keywords
book history, early modern books, women writers
Abstract
The impact of women on the history of literature can be difficult to track, but they made important contributions to writing, publishing, and collecting. This short talk focuses on works in the Rare and Fine Book Collection in the Milner Library Special Collections department, with a particular emphasis on the writer Lady Mary Wroth and the collector Frances Wolfreston. Wroth was the first Englishwoman to publish a complete sonnet sequence and an original work of prose fiction and Wolfreston is considered one of the first notable women book collectors.
Recommended Citation
Fitzsimmons, Rebecca, "Hor Bouks: Or, Her Book: Finding Women Readers, Writers, & Producers in Early Modern Literature" (2021). Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library. 177.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/fpml/177
Comments
This presentation was delivered at the University Club, Illinois State University, March 19, 2021.