The polemics and poems of Rachel Speght
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Fiction
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1996
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Oxford University Press, USA
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English
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Rachel Speght was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unmistakably and by name, as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This edition includes her polemical foray into the Jacobean gender wars and her collected poems. Speght's tract,*A Mouzzell for Melastomus*(1617), is at