Let the London Sewers Overflow: Jane Anger's Protection for Women

Jane Anger is credited with being the first feminist writer in the English language. Her pamphlet 'Protection for Women' provides insight into the relationship between the sexes, regarded, for the first time, solely from a woman's perspective.

Anger's text refutes the content of a now lost pamphlet 'Book his Surfeit in Love' which outlines the complaints against women of 'a surfeiting lover', rendered in this modern edition as an 'over-indulging lover' who has 'gorged on sex'.

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