Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Textual Introduction; Selected Bibliography; A Mouzell for Melastomus; Certaine Quaeres to the Bayter of Women; Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed; Appendix: A Contemporary Response to Speght's Mouzell: Marginalia in the Yale Copy.
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Rachel Speght (1597-?) was the first Englishwoman to identify herself as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This study discusses both her tract, "A Mouzell for Melastomus" (1617) and her volume of poetry, "Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed" (1612).