This volume provides a new context for women¿s writing from the seventeenth through the end of
the nineteenth century highlighting the significant role of the parsonage and the parson
himself for women¿s education in those centuries. Cindy K. Renker and Susanne Bach's collection
of essays is the first of its kind on the education lives and works of highly accomplished
daughters of Protestant clergymen. Since this volume only represents a limited number of women
raised and educated in parsonages it will surely encourage more investigation of other women
writers translators educators etc. with similar backgrounds. Moreover since this book takes
a comparative and transnational approach by focusing on different regions of Europe and
different centuries. This collection of essays is thus aimed at scholars in multiple fields
such as British literature German studies gender studies the history of women¿s education
and social and cultural history.
