The only reliable clues available about Anne Wheathill’s life are those contained in her work, published in 1584. She describes herself as a gentlewoman, unmarried and a Protestant. She also refers to herself as poor and it has been suggested that she was one of a handful of women in Elizabeth I’s reign who attempted to earn money by writing. A handfull of holesome (though homelie) hearbs is an example of the English Reformer’s efforts to revise the Roman Catholic primers and Books of Hours to satisfy the private devotional needs of a Protestant middle class. Although Anne Wheathill...

Alice Sutcliffe was married in 1624 (her birth and death dates are not known, nor her exact marriage date) to John Sutcliffe who was Esquire to the Body of James I. He later became Groom of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Chamber at the Court of Charles I and it is suggested by some of her writings that Alice also had a role at Court. Meditations of Man’s Mortalitie consists of six prose meditations followed by a long poem of eighty-eight six-line stanzas on ’our losse by Adam, and our gayne by Christ’. It was dedicated to some of the most influential members of the Court,...

Printed Writings 1500-1640, Series I, Part Two consists of thirteen volumes of writings by and about early modern Englishwomen. The set comprises the following titles: Volume 1: Anne Cooke Bacon Volume 2: Brief Confessional Writings: Grey, Stubbes, Livingstone, Clarksone Volume 3: Eleanor Davies Volume 4: Early Tudor Translators: Margaret Beaufort, Margaret More Roper and Mary Basset Volume 5: Elizabeth and Mary Tudor Volume 6: Anne, Margaret and Jane Seymour Volume 7: Neo-Latin Women Writers: Elizabeth Jane Weston and Bathsua Reginald (Makin) Volume 8: Mother's Advice Books Volume 9: Jane...

Printed Writings 1641-1700, Series II, Part One consists of seven volumes of writings grouped by genre. The set comprises the following titles: Volume 1: Life Writings I Volume 2: Life Writings II Volume 3: Mother's Advice Books Volume 4: Writings on Medicine Volume 5: Educational and Vocational Books Volume 6: Almanacs Volume 7: Miscellaneous Plays

Printed Writings 1500-1640, Series I, Part One consists of ten volumes of writings by and about early modern Englishwomen. The set comprises the following titles: Volume 1: Anne Askew Volume 2: Literary Works by and attributed to Elizabeth Cary Volume 3: Katherine Parr Volume 4: Defences of Women: Jane Anger, Rachel Speght, Ester Sowernam and Constantia Munda Volume 5: Susanne DuVerger Volume 6: Mary Sidney Herbert Volume 7: Alice Sutcliffe Volume 8: Margaret Tyler Volume 9: Anne Wheathill Volume 10: Mary Wroth