07-31-2026, 10:52 AM
“Those That the Hidden Chemic Art Profess:” Elizabeth Jane Weston, Hester Pulter, and the Secret Language of Alchemy"
"Highlighting the hidden alchemical significance of Weston’s and Pulter’s works sheds light on the complex ways that women writers contributed to the development and propagation of alchemical and proto-scientific knowledge in the early modern period. Studying Weston’s and Pulter’s poetry, I argue, might illustrate how early modern women writing in genres rarely considered scientific could actively contribute to the trajectory of the early modern alchemical and scientific fields."
https://ir.ua.edu/items/69c00522-9595-4a...a2860c0e2c
"Highlighting the hidden alchemical significance of Weston’s and Pulter’s works sheds light on the complex ways that women writers contributed to the development and propagation of alchemical and proto-scientific knowledge in the early modern period. Studying Weston’s and Pulter’s poetry, I argue, might illustrate how early modern women writing in genres rarely considered scientific could actively contribute to the trajectory of the early modern alchemical and scientific fields."
https://ir.ua.edu/items/69c00522-9595-4a...a2860c0e2c