Contents: Introduction: the life and times of Elizabeth Oxenbridge Tyrwhit; A brief history of English private prayerbooks; The sources for 'Morning and Evening Prayers'; Texts composed by Elizabeth Oxenbridge Tyrwhit; Editorial procedure; The Wycliffe Bible manuscript note (1572); Morning and Evening Prayers (1582); Textual notes (1574); 'Morning and Evening Prayers' (1574); Textual notes (1574); Appendices; Index.
Susan M. Felch is Professor of English at Calvin College, USA. She is the editor of The Collected Works of Anne Vaughan Lock (1999) and several other books as well as the author of numerous articles on sixteenth-century British literature.
Winner of the Josephine Roberts Scholarly Edition Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women in 2009 ’The material in Tyrwhit’s texts will be of great interest to scholars not only of Early Modern women’s writing, but also of devotion, devotional poetry, and the English Reformation. Tyrwhit’s prayers, and the critical material supplied by Felch, provide evidence for the centrality of women to religious reform in sixteenth-century England. ...Our understanding of private - or at least individual - devotion in the period is at an early stage, and Felch’s edition (like her earlier edition of Anne Vaughan Lock’s work) is a significant and authoritative contribution to the field.’ Parergon ’Felch adeptly guides the reader through a complex piece of literary criticism, while also engaging with the religious milieu which provided the historical context for the text’s composition and reproduction. The author’s analysis provides an authoritative addition to our knowledge of early modern devotional works produced by women, as well as a comprehensive piece of literary criticism in its own right.’ English Historical Review
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