This anthology represents a re-examination of its field, based on extensive archival research. Each woman's work is accompanied by a headnote which combines bio

Early modern women's manuscript poetry is an anthology of texts by fourteen women poets writing between 1589 and 1706. It is the only currently available anthol

This volume includes leading scholarship on five writers active in the first half of the sixteenth century: Margaret More Roper, Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Mil

Because print publishing was often neither possible nor desirable for women in the early modern period, in order to understand the range of writing by women and

From the exemplary to the notorious to the obscure, this comprehensive and innovative encyclopedia showcases the worthy women of early modern England. Poets, pr