New Database: Perdita manuscripts: women writers, 1500-1700

Perdita manuscripts: women writers, 1500-1700

Complete facsimile images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isle during the 16th and 17th centuries. Contents include account books, advice, culinary writing, meditation, travel writing, and verse. Perdita manuscripts can be indexed by name, place, genre, and first lines of both poetry and prose.

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ERC: John Tofanelli

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