10 The Monument of Matrones
T
he Monument of Matrons: Containing Seven Several Lamps of Virginity, or Distinct Treatises; Whereof the First Five Concern Prayer and Meditation: the Other Two Last, Precepts and Examples, 1582 was the first published anthology of women’s writing, containing ‘divers very godly, learned and divine treatises, of meditations and prayer, made by sundry right famous 60
