Mary Mollineux
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Mary Mollineux (1651 – 1696) Probably the daughter of Catholic parents who converted to Quakerism, Mollinuex differed from many of her Quaker contemporaries because of her early education in Latin, Greek, science, and arithmetic. Her poems--collected as The Fruits of Retirement and published after her death by the female publisher Tace Sowle--blend her erudition with activism and also develop literary constructions about exile, retreat, and retirement more typical of Katherine Philips and (later) Anne Finch than of Quaker polemicists. However, like her contemporaries, Mollineux spent time in prison and when her cousin compiled her poems for publication in 1702, he did so (he suggested) because they would work in service of Quakerism.
[edit] Works
- The Fruits of Retirement (1702) Posthumously published, the book is a compilation of Mollineux’s manuscript poetry put together by her cousin Frances Owen and printed by the Quaker woman publisher Tace Sowle.
[edit] Bibliography
- Achinstein, Sharon, Literature and Dissent in Milton's England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
- ---, "Romance of the Spirit: Female Sexuality and Religious Desire in Early Modern England," ELH 69.2 (2002): 413-438.
- Donoghue, Emma (ed.), Poems between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).
- Ezell, Margaret J.M., Social Authorship and the Advent of Print (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
- ---, Writing Women's Literary History (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
- Schofield, Mary Anne. "'Women’s Speaking Justified': The Feminine Quaker Voice, 1662-1797," Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 6.1 (Spring 1987): 61-77.
- Stevenson, Jane and Peter Davidson (eds), Early Modern Women Poets (1520-1700): An Anthology (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
- Stevenson, Jane, Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth-Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
