By Alan S. Weber

ISBN-10: 075460215X

ISBN-13: 9780754602156

Almanacs have been hugely influential on well known opinion throughout the early smooth interval. They have been the lowest priced different types of books and had a pragmatic use as a calendar, literary miscellany, climate consultant and advertisements medium. The almanacs during this quantity give a contribution to our figuring out of women's participation in pop culture, astrology, medication and prophecy. Sarah Jinner's almanacs for the years 1658, 1659 and 1664, and Mary Holden's almanacs for 1688 and 1689 exhibit a wakeful attempt to distance themselves from different lady non secular prophets of the interval by way of hoping on the prestige of astrology as a rational technological know-how. the opposite works within the quantity are all attributed to writers who have been most likely pseudonymous. Dorothy Partridge's The Woman's Almanack for the yr 1694 comprises a number of brief articles on chiromancy. The Prophesie of mom Shipton issues the prediction of the deaths of Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell. the ultimate works within the quantity include texts by means of Shinkin ap Shone which satirize the Welsh humans and language, and The Woman's Alamanack through Sarah Ginnor which makes use of sexual humour to parody the clinical suggestion provided in Jinner's almanacs.

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