Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer have emerged as important literary figures in the past ten years and scholars have increasingly realized that the

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Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney and Aemilia Lanyer have emerged as important literary figures in the past 10 years and scholars have realised that their often unort

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