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'''''The Monument of Matrones''''' (1582) was the first published anthology of English women's writing.<ref name="King">King, John N. (2005) "Thomas Bentley’s Monument of Matrons: The Earliest Anthology of English Women’s Texts." In ''Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy.'' University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-09881-1, p. 216.</ref> A compilation of [[prayer]]s and meditations written largely by and for women published in London, its full title was ''The Monument of Matrones: Conteining Seven Severall Lamps of Virginitie, or Distinct Treatises; Whereof the First Five Concerne Praier and Meditation: the Other Two Last, Precepts and Examples''. The ''Monument'''s seven "Lampes" or books make up 1500 [[quarto]] pages.<ref name="Cambridge">{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NB59uc9_ss8C|title=The Cambridge guide to women's writing in English|editors=Sage, Lorna; Germaine Greer; and Elaine Showalter|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=1999|page=444|accessdate=21 February 2011}}</ref><ref name="Otten">{{cite book|title=English women's voices, 1540-1700|last=Otten|first=Charlotte F.|publisher=University of Florida Press|date=1991|isbn=978-0813010991 }}</ref>
The ''Monument'' was compiled by Thomas Bentley, then a student of [[Gray's Inn]], in a bid for royal patronage, and
Described in its Introduction as "diuers verie godlie, learned and diuine treatises, of meditationes and praier, made by sundrie right famous Queenes, noble Ladies, vertuous Virgins, and godlie Gentlewomen of al ages"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=2303648
|first1=Colin|last1=Atkinson|first2=Jo B.|last2=Atkinson|year=1991|title=Subordinating Women: Thomas Bentley's Use of Biblical Women in ‘The Monument of Matrones’ (1582)|work=Church History|volume=60|pages=289-300}}</ref> Bentley's compilation
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