Project Introduction

Everyone will, of course, read the entire chosen work. Each group will then discuss the following questions that relate to how their section of the text will be edited. Everyone should take notes during these discussions so that the Editor's Note will be a true description of the process.

• Who is the audience you are editing for? How can you help that audience to read the work intelligently?
• Should the text be presented in old spelling or modernized spelling? Why? Be sure to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both options before making your decision.
• What things will you annotate? Where will you put the annotations? Do you indicate their presence in the text (e.g. by a footnote number) or do you trust the reader to look for help if he or she needs it?
• Do you want to give the reader an experience of the original text, or try to emphasize the modern accessibility? What trade-offs are involved?
• Is there any background information which the reader should have access to in order to fully understand the text? How will you present this information?
• Prepare an annotated bibliography of any source materials you use.

Each group should quickly select a leader, who will call the group together, make sure there is consensus on editing decisions, and make assignments. The leader will begin the presentation on (due date), but all members are expected to speak.

Guide to Research

Part One -- Getting Started

A general reference book is a good place to begin your research. The books listed below provide a very general introduction to women writers of various time periods, usually simply listing publications and dates of publication. Libraries holding original manuscripts may also be listed. Once you have chosen the writer or work which you wish to research, you will be able to choose your background materials based on chronological or geographical considerations.

Because the task of the bibliographer of women's writing is so large, reference materials on women writers are usually divided by time period. In addition, each volume lists its methodolgy and its limitations at the beginning of the listings. For the convenience of the researcher, each volume listed below has been briefly annotated. For full explanations of the scope of each bibliographic project, please refer to the volume itself.

All volumes listed are available at Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Library; all call numbers refer to this library. Non-Emory users, please consult your library's catalog.

Alston, R. C. A Checklist of Women Writers, 1801-1900: Fiction * Verse * Drama. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990.
Lists 17,107 texts: Fiction: 14,730; Verse: 2,079; Drama: 298.
Covers works written by women and published in English in the British Isles and in British dependent territories. Does not cover works written in insular vernaculars other than English, nor does it include works written in Latin. Also excluded are all works intended for children or the nursery, chapbooks, and translations from other languages.
[REF Z2013.5 W6A48 1990]

Daims, Diva and Janet Grimes.Toward A Feminist Tradition: An Annotated Bibliography of Novels in English By Women 1891-1920. New York: Garland, 1982.
Lists 3,407 titles; 1,723 authors.
Listings have been selected from Novels in English by Women in order to "provide a broad basis for subsequent research by women's studies scholars leading to analysis and definition of a feminist tradition in women's novels of the period." All works intended for children and most short fiction is excluded. Translations are included only if the original work is by a woman, and if the original work was published during the years 1891-1920. The main criteria for selections included is "the unconventional treatment of women characters."
[REF Z2013.5 W6D34 1982]

Daims, Diva and Janet Grimes. Novels in English by Women, 1891-1920: A Preliminary Checklist. New York: Garland, 1981.
Lists 15,174 novels published in the United States and England. Includes 5,267 authors.
Also includes translations and anonymous novels (where determined to be written by a woman). Seventy-five percent of the entries are annotated. Does not include: works intended for children or novels by joint authors if one author is male. Includes occasional autobiographies, short stories, and travel books, if original sources list these as fiction.
[REF Z2013.5 W6G75 1981]

Davis, Gwenn and Beverly A. Joyce. Poetry By Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers. London: Mansell, 1991.
Second volume in a series designed to "make accessible literary works by well-known and neglected writers in order to re-establish the range and variety of works published by women from 1475-1900." This volume includes over 6,000 entries.
[REF Z2013.5 W6D38 1991]

Smith, Hilda L. And Susan Cardinale. Women and the Literature of the Seventeenth Century: An Annotated Bibliography based on Wing's Short-title Catalogue. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
An expansion of the Short-title Catalogue, listing titles on and about women, and a reading of these materials, especially previously unexamined texts. Part One lists only works by women. Part Two lists works on and about women, as well as material mistakenly attributed to women but likely written by men. An appendix lists female booksellers, publishers, and printers.
[REF Z2013.5 W6S6 1990]

Part Two -- Finding Primary Sources

Your first step should be to assess your access to a good rare book collection, most notably, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California; the Folger Library in Washington, D. C.; the British Library in London; the Newberry Library in Chicago; or the university libraries at Harvard, Yale, Cambridge and Oxford.

If these libraries are not accessible, check the latest annual Books in Print to determine if the text you are interested in has been reprinted. Books in Print is available in most libraries and bookstores.

If the book has not been reprinted, check the microfilm listings at your university library, or the Short Title Catalogue, to determine if the text has been transferred to microfilm. Your Interlibrary Loan office can borrow a filmed text for you if your library does not own the text.

Check the Internet to see if the text has been electronically published. See the list of resources below for ideas on where to begin your Internet search.

If you cannot find a text on microfilm, on the Internet, or available as a reprint, you may want to check another work by the same author.

STC
EEB -- Early English Books (microfilm)
TT -- The Thomason Tracts (microfilm)

WWP -- The Brown Women's Web project.

Bibliography

GENERAL BACKGROUND READING

Camden, Charles Carroll. The Elizabethan Woman . (Houston: Elsevier Press, 1952).
Chapters on: The Nature of Woman; Education; The Choice of a Wife; The Marriage Contract, Marriage, Marriage Customs; Domestic Relationships; Pastimes and Amusements; Gilding the Lily; Clothing and Appurtenances; Certain Controversies over Women.

Cerasano, S. P. And Marion Wynne-Davies, ed. Gloriana's Face: Women, Public and Private, in the English Renaissance . (London: Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 1992).
Articles include: "'From Myself, My Other Self I Turned': An Introduction" by S. P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies. "Penelope and the Politics of Woman's Place in the Renaissance" by Georgianna Ziegler. "Private Writing and Public Function: Autobiographical Texts by Renaissance Gentlewomen" by Helen Wilcox. "Queen Elizabeth in Her Speeches" by Frances Teague. "The Queen's Masque: Renaissance Women and the Seventheeth-Century Court Masque" by Marion Wynne-Davies. "'The Chief Knot of All the Discourse': The Maternal Subtext Tying Sidney's Arcadia to Shakespeare's King Lear " by Barbara J. Bono. "'Household Kates': Chez Petruchio, Percy and Plantagenet" by Laurie E. Maguire. "'Half a Dozen Dangerous Words'" by S. P. Cerasano. "'Their Testament at their Apron-Strings'": The Representation of Puritan Women in Early Seventeenth-Century England by Akiko Kusunoki. "'Who May Binde Where God Hath Loosed?': Responses to Sectarian Women's Writing in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century" by Hilary Hinds.

Davies, Stevie. The Idea of Woman in Renaissance Literature: The Feminine Reclaimed . (Brighton: Harvester, 1986).
Considers Spenser (Book III of Faerie Queene ), Shakespeare's tragi-comedies, especially Pericles and The Winter's Tale , and certain areas of Milton's Paradise Lost , but also refers to "other parts of the authors' works, other poets, and multitudinous background works" to prove her thesis of the "reclamation" of "the feminine:" "It is said by modern writers on the sociology of the period and its literary manifestations that the Reformation forced women's status down to that of passive handmaiden, with the duty of silence, removing the iconography of the female from religion in the persons of Virgin and saints; that property rights reflected man's primary interest in her; that the stage presented her eloquence and pretensions as those of rebellious 'scolds' who had to be punished and muted." Davies examines literature for a Platonic Idea of woman who existed in contrast to the everyday experience of Renaissance woman. Includes: Introduction; Spenser: The Four Graces, Britomart to Florimell, Diana and Venus, Art and Amoret; Shakespeare: Hamnet and Judith, Isis and Ceres, Marina and Eleusis, The Temple of Demeter Hermion, Woman as Magus; Milton: Deborah, The Muse and the Maenads, Mother Earth, Ceres and Proserpina.

Ferguson, Margaret, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy J. Vickers, eds. , Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986).
These essays explore "immense social and cultural patterns" with a "divisive stress on differences between genders, but also between classes, or races, or nationalities." They juxtapose the insights of feminism with those of Marxism, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction.
Part One: The Politics of Patriarchy: Theory and Practice, includes: "Fatherly Authority: The Politics of Stuart Family Images" by Jonathan Goldberg. "The Absent Mother in King Lear " by Coppélia Kahn. "Prospero's Wife" by Stephen Orgel. "A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Shaping Fantasies of Elizabethan Culture: Gender, Power, Form" by Louis A. Montrose. "Puritanism and Maenadism in A Mask " by Richard Halpern. "Dalila's House: Samson Agonistes and the Sexual Division of Labor" by John Guillory. "Patriarchal Territories: The Body Enclosed" by Peter Stallybrass.
Part Two: The Rhetorics of Marginalization: Consequences of Patriarchy, includes: "The Other and The Same: The Image of the Hermaphrodite in Rabelais" by Carla Freccero. "Usurpation, Seduction, and the Problematics of the Proper: A 'Deconstructive'" by __________. "'A Feminist' Re-Reading of the Seductions of Richard and Anne in Shakespeare's Richard III " by Marguerite Waller. "The Beauty of Woman: Problems in the Rhetoric of Renaissance Portraiture" by Elizabeth Cropper. "Spinsters and Seamstresses: Women in Cloth and Clothing Production" by Merry E. Wiesner. "A Woman's Place Was in the Home: Women's Work in Renaissance Tuscany" by Judith C. Brown.
Part Three: The Works of Women: Some Exceptions to the Rule of Patriarchy, includes: "Catherine de' Medici as Artemisia: Figuring the Powerful Widow" by Sheila ffolliott. "Feminism and the Humanists: The Case for Sir Thomas Elyot's Defense of Good Women " by Constance Jordan. "Singing Unsung Heroines: Androgynous Discourse in Book Three of The Faerie Queene " by Lauren Silberman. "Stella's Wit: Penelope Rich as Reader of Sidney's Sonnets" by Clark Hulse. "Gender vs. Sex Difference in Louise Labé's Grammar of Love " by François Rigolet. "City Women and Their Audiences: Louise Labé and Veronica Franco" by Ann Rosalind Jones.

Fletcher, Anthony. Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500-1800 . (New Haven: Yale UP, 1995).
From the Introduction: "Little more than two hundred years separates the first performances of Much Ado About Nothing and the publication of Emma . Yet these two literary works express quite different worlds of gender. Shakespeare's men and women relate to each other, see themselves as males and females, quite differently than Jane Austen's. Something has changed between 1600 and 1800. Gender is both relational and organizational: it 'inhabits social structures, practices and the imagination' while it is also 'an organising principle of social structures, institutions, and practices.' In other words, it is about both love and power."
Part I: Before the Gendered Body, includes: Prologue: Men's Dilemmas; Functional Anatomies; Fungible Fluids, Heat and Concoction; The Weaker Vessel; Effeminacy and Manhood.
Part II: The Working of Patriarchy, includes: Prologue: Presecription and Honour Codes; The Gentry and Honour; Husbands and Wives: Case Studies; Living Together; Marital Violence; Household Order; Men's Work, Women's Work; Beyond the Household.
Part III: Towards Modern Gender, includes: Prologue: New Thinking, New Knowledge; Educating Boys; The Construction of Masculinity; Women and Religion; Educating Girls; The Construction of Femininity; Gender, Patriarchy and Early Modern Society.

Hannay, Margaret Patterson (ed.), Silent But for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators and Writers of Religious Works (Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1986).
Includes: "Introduction" by Margaret Patterson Hannay. "Some Sad Sentence: Vives' Instruction of a Christian Woman " by Valerie Wayne. "Margaret More Roper's Personal Expression in the Devout Treatise Upon the Pater Noster " by Rita Verbrugge. "Patronnage and Piety: The Influence of Catherine Parr" by John N. King. "The Pearl of the Valois and Elizabeth I: Marguerite de Navarre's Miroir and Tudor England. "Anne Askew's Self-Portrait in the Examinations " by Elaine V. Beilin. "Lady Jane Grey: Protestant Queen and Martyr" by Carole Levin. "The Cooke Sisters: Attitudes toward Learned Women in the Renaissance" by Mary Ellen Lamb. "The Style of the Countess of Pembroke's Translation of Phillippe de Mornay's Discours de la vie et de la mort " by Diane Bornstein. "'Doo What Men May Sing': Mary Sidney and the Tradition of Admonitory Dedication" by Margaret P. Hannay. "Mary Sidney's Psalmes : Education and Wisdom" by Beth Wynne Fisken. "Spenser and the Patronesses of the Fowre Hymnes : 'Ornaments of All True Love and Beautie" by Jon A. Quitslund. "Of God and Good Women: The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer" by Barbara K. Lewalski. "Elizabeth Cary and Tyranny, Domestic and Religious" by Sandra K. Fischer. "Struggling into Discourse: The Emergence of Renaissance Women's Writing" by Gary F. Waller.

Haselkorn, Ann and Betty Travitsky (eds.)

Henderson, Katherine Usher and Barbara F. McManus.

Hull, Suzanne W.

Krontiris, Tina.

Prior, Mary, ed.

Rose, Mary Beth (ed.),

Travitsky, Betty S. and Adele F. Seef, eds.

Wilson, Katharina,

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