Nine new exhibits are now in Women Writers in Context

We’re happy to report that we just added nine new exhibits to Women Writers in Context, an experimental publication series designed to engage readers in exploration and discovery of topics related to early women’s writing. Exhibits are brief essays that combine critical arguments, images and media objects, visualizations, and links to the primary sources in Women Writers Online.

The newly released exhibits, written by scholars of literary and historical studies, offer introductions to works by Margaret Roper, Anne Bradstreet, Hannah Wolley, Eleanor Davies, Katharine Evans, Sarah Chevers, Rachel Speght, Elizabeth Melville, Eliza Haywood, and Elizabeth Clinton. May of these exhibits discuss women’s responses to questions of religion and education and thus provide context to the religious and instructional texts that we have recently published in Women Writers Online.

The Women Writers in Context platform is designed to serve as a point of entry for the materials in Women Writers Online, highlighting connections among the texts and their authors. Exhibits have several reading and display options, with contextual details for the persons and texts discussed, a timeline view showing significant events, and links to additional readings and information.

Here are the new exhibits:

Patricial Caldwell’s introduction to Anne Bradstreet’s The Tenth Muse
Margaret Ezell’s introduction to Katharine Evans and Sarah Chevers’ This is a Short Relation
Teresa Feroli’s introduction to Eleanor Davies’s Tobit’s Book, A Lesson Appointed for Lent
Elaine Hobby’s introduction to Hannah Wolley’s The Cook’s Guide
Rebecca Laroche’s introduction to Elizabeth Melville’s A Godly Dream
Elizabeth McCutcheon’s introduction to Margaret Roper’s translation of A Devout Treatise Upon the Pater Noster
Sheri Metzger’s introduction to Rachel Speght’s Mortalities Memorandum
Betty Travitsky’s introduction to Elizabeth Clinton’s The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie
Earla Wilputte’s introduction to Eliza Haywood’s Adventures of Eovaai

Explore these exhibits and others here. See more on the content and goals of Women Writers in Context here. Interested in contributing an exhibit? A guide for authors is available here.