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Lady Mary Wroth's "Urania" and "Pamphilia to Amphilanthus" constitute the first romance and the first sonnet sequence to be published by an Englishwoman. This volume gathers together some of the criticism addressing Wroth's oeuvre. It also discusses the intellectual and cultural contexts in which she wrote.
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was renowned in her own time for her metrical translation of biblical Psalms, several original poems, translations from French and Italian, and her literary patronage. This book offers a brief introduction to her life and an overview of the critical reception of her works.
Drawing together essays and articles from a disparate group of scholarly journals and collective volumes, this title offers a selection from some of the best work on the subject of early modern women writers. It is suitable for scholars new to this area as well as for experienced scholars.
Includes scholarship on five writers active in the first half of the sixteenth century: Margaret More Roper, Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Mildred Cooke Cecil and Anne Cooke Bacon. This volume provides insights into the religious, social, economic and political contexts essential for understanding these writers' texts.
Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer are important literary figures. This book collects essays that elucidate these women's works from a wide range of feminist, literary, aesthetic, economic, racial, sexual and theological perspectives.
Elizabeth Cary's "Tragedy of Mariam", the first original drama written in English by a woman, has been a touchstone for feminist scholarship in the period for several decades and is one of the most anthologized works by a Renaissance woman writer. This book highlights the debates about Cary's works.
Anne Clifford has been known primarily for her "Knole Diary". Lucy Hutchinson was known primarily as the biographer of her husband, a Puritan leader during the English Civil Wars. This book contains essays that examine not only these texts but, in Clifford's case, her architectural restorations.
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