This book demonstrates that reading and writing catechisms were crucial sites of women's literary engagements in early modern England Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on...
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This book demonstrates that reading and writing catechisms were crucial sites of women's literary engagements in early modern England Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Transcription and Citation -- Introduction: "Milk for Babes": Catechisms and Female Authorship in Early Modern England -- Part I Domestic Catechesis and Female Authorship -- Chapter 1 "Mother Bare Me": Catechisms and Maternity in Early Modern England -- Chapter 2 "A Tender Mother": Domestic Catechesis in the Household Devotional of Katherine Fitzwilliam (b. 1579) -- Part II Female Witness and Inter-Confessional Dialogue -- Chapter 3 "At Magdalin's House": Maternal Catechesis and Female Witness in the Manuscript Miscellany of Katherine Thomas (b. 1637) -- Chapter 4 Catholicism, Catechesis, and Coterie Circulation: The Manuscript of Barbara Slingsby Talbot (b. 1633) -- Part III Print and Polemic -- Chapter 5 "A Knowing People": Catechesis and Community in Dorothy Burch's A Catechisme of the Severall Heads of the Christian Religion (1646) -- Chapter 6 Prophecy, Catechesis, and Community in Mary Cary's The Resurrection of the Witnesses (1653) -- Epilogue: Catechisms and the History of Women's Writing -- Select Bibliography -- Index
