GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-001163
TitleA SWEETE SAVOR, FOR WOMAN
ShelfmarkEgerton MS 1043
Creation Dateca. 1606 - 1606
RepositoryBritish Library
Contents NoteAn autograph presentation manuscript composed in English, intended as a New Year’s gift for Queen Anne of Denmark (see f. 5r).
Material FeaturesSmall quarto. Black velvet binding, upon which the royal coat of arms has been stamped.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Kerslake, I.manuscript owner - Stuart (Anne of Denmark), Annemanuscript owner - Walker, Annamanuscript owner - Walpole, Horacemanuscript owner - Wilbraham, Elizabeth
ProvenanceThe armorial bookplate of Horace Walpole has been pasted onto f. 1r. On f. 1v, the following has been written, in a seventeenth-century italic hand: ‘Elizabeth Wilbraham \her/ booke giuen her by her deerest frind, now, he being gone she keeps this as a pretious Jewell’.
AcquisitionAcquisition information is indicated on f. 2r: ‘Purchased of I. Kerslake, Bristol, 14 Oct. 1843. (From the Strawberry Hill sale, Lot 61).’
Source of DataBritish Library catalogue; Suzanne Trill, ‘The First Sermon in English by a Woman Writer?’, Notes and Queries, 47.4 (2000), pp. 470–73; Suzanne Trill, ‘A Feminist Critic in the Archives: reading Anna Walker’s A Sweete Savor for Woman (c. 1606)’, Women’s Writing, 9.2 (2002), pp. 199–214; Christina Luckyj, '"A Womans Logicke": Puritan women writers and the rejection of education', in The Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World, ed. by Kimberly Anne Coles and Eve Keller (Abingdon and New York, NY: Routledge, 2019), pp. 154-169 (pp. 156-159); Hannah Yip.
Other NoteIn 2000, Suzanne Trill argued that this volume contains ‘the first (and only?) attempt by a woman writer to construct a sermon in English in the early seventeenth century’ (p. 471). The present cataloguer follows Trill’s dating rather than that in the British Library catalogue.
Sermons ContainedA SWEETE SAVOR, FOR WOMAN -- ff. 28v–66v
Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdJune 25, 2019
GEMMS record last editedNovember 07, 2019