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Almanacs were highly influential on popular opinion during the early modern period. They were the least expensive kinds of books and had a practical use as a calendar, literary miscellany, weather guide and advertising medium. The almanacs in this volume contribute to our understanding of women's participation in popular culture, astrology, medicine and prophecy. Sarah Jinner's almanacs for the years 1658, 1659 and 1664, and Mary Holden's almanacs for 1688 and 1689 show a conscious effort to distance themselves from other female religious prophets of the period by relying on the status of astrology as a rational science. The other works in the volume are all attributed to writers who were probably pseudonymous. Dorothy Partridge's The Woman's Almanack for the Year 1694 includes several short articles on chiromancy. The Prophesie of Mother Shipton concerns the prediction of the deaths of Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell. The final works in the volume comprise two texts by Shinkin ap Shone which satirize the Welsh people and language, and The Woman's Alamanack by Sarah Ginnor which uses sexual humour to parody the medical advice offered in Jinner's almanacs.
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APPENDIX B: A KEY TO DIFFICULT-TO-READ PASSAGES
Page numbers refer to the modern pagination placed at the bottom of the text for the ease of the reader.
Sarah Jinner
An Almanack or Prognostication for the year of our Lord 1658
17.5–6 | Wom/en |
17.14–15 | testimo-/ny |
17.20 | managed; Amazones |
17.21 | Semiramis |
17.24 | deny |
17.30 | business |
17.31 | old: and now of late |
17.32 | what a rare Poem; Mistris Kathe- |
17.33 | near |
17.34–35 | Cart-/wrightes Poetes; wit |
17.37 | many more |
17.38 | Countess of Kent; lastly, of |
18.2 | Cunetia |
18.3 | parts |
18.4 | to rust? Let us scowre the rust off, by ingenious |
endeavouring the | |
18.5 | animate |
18.8 | to excell us: so by this means we should |
18.15 | at noon; Moon is in: the |
18.16 | remaining |
18.17 | Suns entering Ari- |
18.18 | handled according to |
18.19 | Medicines tending to the |
18.20 | could have inserted |
18.21 | most |
18.23 | or, the Feminine; profit and |
18.24 | use.); lastly,; Monthly; Astrological, and |
18.25 | other |
18.26 | advise |
18.29–30 | it is intended to be a collection of/Rarities, worth thy |
view and preserving. | |
19.6–7 | In this figure and the figure of the preventional full/ |
Moon, and postventional new Moon, Saturn, Jupi- | |
22.3 | I find Mars Lord of the ascendant in/ |
22.4 | head it denoteth some |
22.9 | doth foretell many diseases in women. Well |
22.13 | neither can I pro- |
22.14 | mise you any riches: for Mars is in the s... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Original Copyright Page
- Preface by the General Editors
- Introductory Note
- An Almanack or Prognostication for the year of our Lord 1658
- An Almanack and Prognostication for the year of our Lord 1659
- An Almanack for the Year of our Lord God 1664
- The Womans Almanack for the Year of our Lord, 1688
- The Womans Almanack: Or, An Ephemerides For the Year of Our Lord, 1689
- The Woman’s Almanack, For the Year 1694
- Appendix A:
- Appendix B: A Key to Difficult-to-Read Passages