Katherine Parr: Complete works and correspondence

Katherine Parr: complete works and correspondence

Thank you to the Lady Jane Grey Reference Guide Blog for bringing this fabulous new book to my attention.

Details from The University of Chicago Press:

For this new edition, Janel Mueller has assembled the four publications attributed to Parr—Psalms or Prayers, Prayers or Meditations, The Lamentation of a Sinner, and a compilation of prayers and Biblical excerpts written in her hand—as well as her extensive correspondence, which is collected here for the first time. Mueller brings to this volume a wealth of knowledge of sixteenth-century English culture. She marshals the impeccable skills of a textual scholar in rendering Parr’s sixteenth-century English for modern readers and provides useful background on the circumstances of and references in Parr’s letters and compositions. Given its scope and ambition, Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence will be an event for the English publishing world and will make an immediate contribution to the fields of sixteenth-century literature, reformation studies, women’s writing, and Tudor politics.

I don’t think I will be able to resist this gem!

Katherine Parr: Complete works and correspondence available from Amazon

Publication date: 30/06/11