"Lawfull Avarice": Rachael Speght's
A scholarly article by Linda Vecchi.
From "The Dream"
An excerpt from Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed (1621).
Rachel Speght ( 1597 - c. 1630) Reclaiming Eve:
A Mouzell for Melastomus (1617).
Renascence Editions: A Mouzell for Melastomus
Etext from the 1617 edition of the work.
Renascence Editions: Mortalities Memorandum
Etext based on the first edition at the British Library.
Sunshine for Women: Rachel Speght
A biography, summary of major works, and excerpt from A Mouzell for Melastomus.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 17
Excerpt from A Muzzle for Melastomus, a reinterpretion of "the Eden story in terms that remove the onus that Genesis commentators traditionally attached to Eve, as inferior by nature and as primary human agent in the Fall."