Samuel Rowlands
Samuel Rowlands was an English author of pamphlets in prose and verse which reflect the follies and humours of lower middle-class life in his day. He seems to have had no literary reputation at the time, but his work throws much light on the development of popular literature and social life in London, where he spent his life. His contact with the middle and lower classes of society included working in 1600–1615 for William White, and then George Loftus, booksellers, who published Rowlands's pamphlets in this time.
The Bride
In a time of arranged marriages, a new wife tries to persuade unmarried women of the joys of married life, even as they express their fear about men and a loss of freedom, as told in a series of lively dialogues.
By Samuel Rowlands
Humors Looking Glasse
Travel back in time through witty verses and discover a world of comical characters and bizarre customs that reveal the amusing side of human nature long ago.
By Samuel Rowlands