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Product Description: In this innovative study, first published in 2005, Diane Purkiss illuminates the role of gender in the English Civil War by focusing on ideas of masculinity, rather than on the role of women, which has hitherto received more attention...read more
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9780521841375 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 19, 2005, cover price $119.00 | About this edition: In this innovative study, first published in 2005, Diane Purkiss illuminates the role of gender in the English Civil War by focusing on ideas of masculinity, rather than on the role of women, which has hitherto received more attention.

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9780521152761 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2010, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: In this innovative study, first published in 2005, Diane Purkiss illuminates the role of gender in the English Civil War by focusing on ideas of masculinity, rather than on the role of women, which has hitherto received more attention.

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9780415222112 | 1 edition (Routledge, December 31, 2012), cover price $80.00

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9780415222129 | 1 edition (Routledge, December 31, 2012), cover price $26.95

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A history of the English Civil War explores the violent battle for power between the monarchy and Parliament from the perspectives of those involved and examines the repercussions of the struggle that ripped apart seventeenth-century England and transformed the face of modern-day Britain. Reprint.
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9780465067565, titled "The English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain" | Basic Books, June 5, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A history of the English Civil War explores the violent battle for power between the monarchy and Parliament from the perspectives of those involved and examines the repercussions of the struggle that ripped apart seventeenth-century England and transformed the face of modern-day Britain.

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9780465067572, titled "The English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain" | Reprint edition (Basic Books, December 3, 2007), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A history of the English Civil War explores the violent battle for power between the monarchy and Parliament from the perspectives of those involved and examines the repercussions of the struggle that ripped apart seventeenth-century England and transformed the face of modern-day Britain.

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From the dangerous beings of ancient myths and medieval folklore, to the sanitized 'wingy thingies' of Shakespeare and the Victorians, and even modern myths of alien abduction, this book presents a history of fairies. It tells that they have a darker and menacing history - as troublemakers, child-snatchers, seducers and changelings.
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9780752440736 | Tempus Pub Ltd, September 28, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From the dangerous beings of ancient myths and medieval folklore, to the sanitized 'wingy thingies' of Shakespeare and the Victorians, and even modern myths of alien abduction, this book presents a history of fairies.

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Product Description: At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780814766866 | New York Univ Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present.

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A history of fairies argues that fairies in ancient and medieval civilizations were often portrayed as child-killers and seducers, and belief in fairies, goblins, and gorgons stemmed from fear of death, the dark, birth, and sex. (view table of contents)
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9780814766835 | New York Univ Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: A history of fairies argues that fairies in ancient and medieval civilizations were often portrayed as child-killers and seducers, and belief in fairies, goblins, and gorgons stemmed from fear of death, the dark, birth, and sex.

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Product Description: This volume contains unmodernized versions of plays by each of the three leading Renaissance women dramatists: Elizabeth Cary's "The Tragedie of Mariam" (1613), the story of the plight of a woman married against her will to an unbending tyrant; June Lumley's version of Euripides' "Iphigenia" (1550), the earliest surviving translation of a Greek tragedy; and Mary Sidney's "Antonie" (1590), a blank verse translation of a French Senecan play...read more
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9780140436105 | Penguin Uk, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This volume contains unmodernized versions of plays by each of the three leading Renaissance women dramatists: Elizabeth Cary's "The Tragedie of Mariam" (1613), the story of the plight of a woman married against her will to an unbending tyrant; June Lumley's version of Euripides' "Iphigenia" (1550), the earliest surviving translation of a Greek tragedy; and Mary Sidney's "Antonie" (1590), a blank verse translation of a French Senecan play.

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Product Description: 'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer'An invigorating and challenging book ...read more
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9780415087612 | Routledge, October 1, 1996, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: 'Diane Purkiss .

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9780415087629 | Routledge, October 1, 1996, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: 'Diane Purkiss .

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Product Description: This volume brings together two of the earliest women writers. Elizabeth Cary's (1585-1639) "The Tragedie of Mariam" is one of the first in English known to be the work of a woman writer. Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645) came from a class of artisans and civil servants dependant on court and aristocratic patronage...read more
By Diane Purkiss (editor)
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9781851960293 | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, December 1, 1994, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This volume brings together two of the earliest women writers.

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Product Description: The shared aim of these important new critical interventions into the early modern period is to make fresh feminist attempts to uncover the writings of Elizabethan and Jacobean women. Subject to silence, censorship and manipulation in the terms of overriding political concerns of the day, the feminist history of the early modern period is still a largely unwritten story...read more
By Clare Brant (editor) and Diane Purkiss (editor)
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9780415053693 | Routledge, August 1, 1992, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: The shared aim of these important new critical interventions into the early modern period is to make fresh feminist attempts to uncover the writings of Elizabethan and Jacobean women.

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9780415053709 | Routledge, August 1, 1992, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: The essays offer new feminist analysis of the early modern period and show how women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended.

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