In Tudor and Stuart Britain, women writers took active roles in negotiating cultural ideas and systems to gain power by participating in politics through writin

In this introduction to the diversity and scope of the writing by women in England from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the restoration of the monarch

Presented in two volumes, The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500-1700 assesses the current state of scholarship on members of the Sidney family and

This book examines the way in which early modern women writers conceived of grief and the relationship between the dead and the living.

By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected he