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This digital collection has been produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. "Perdita" means "lost woman" and the aim of the Project has been to identify and describe all manner of manuscript writing by early modern women from diaries to works of drama. Includes complete facsimile images of over 230 manuscripts written or compiled by women living in the British Isles during the 16th and 17th centuries. Contents include account books, advice, culinary writing, meditation, travel writing, and verse.

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Subject headings

  • Women authors, English--16th century.
  • Women authors, English--17th century.
  • English literature--Women authors.
  • Account books.
  • English diaries--Women authors.
  • Religious literature--Women authors.
  • Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800.
  • Formulas, recipes, etc.--Early works to 1800.
  • Manuscripts--Great Britain--16th century.
  • Manuscripts--Great Britain--17th century.
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