Cover 1
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540–1700 4
Copyright 5
Dedication 6
Contents 10
List of Illustrations 16
List of Abbreviations 18
List of Contributors 20
1. What is Early Modern Women’s Writing? 38
PART I VOICE AND KNOWLEDGE 58
2. Authorship, Attribution, and Voice in Early Modern
Women’s Writing 60
3. How Lady Jane Grey May Have Used her Education 76
4. Latin and Greek 90
5. ‘At My Petition’: Embroidering Esther 104
6. Practical Texts: Women, Instruction, and the Household 120
7. Cultures of Correspondence: Women and Natural Philosophy 134
8. Libraries Not Only Their Own: Networking Women’s Books and Reading in Early Modern England 150
PART II FORMS AND ORIGINS 162
9. The Querelle des Femmes, the Overbury Scandal, and the Politics of the Swetnam Controversy in Early Modern England 164
10. The Songscapes of Early Modern Women 180
11. Receiving Early Modern Women’s Drama 194
12. ‘Sing and let the song be new’: Early Modern Women’s
Devotional Lyrics 210
13. Lyric Backwardness 226
14. ‘People of a Deeper Speech’: Anna Trapnel, Enthusiasm, and the Aesthetics of Incoherence 240
15. Commonplacing, Making Miscellanies, and Interpreting Literature 254
16. Women’s Life Writing and the Labour of Textual Stewardship 268
17. Women and Fiction 282
18. Romance and Race 298
PART III PLACES 312
19. A Place-​Based Approach to Early Modern Women’s Writing 314
20. London and the Book Trade: Isabella Whitney, Jane Anger,
and the ‘Maydens of London’ 328
21. The Self-​Portrayal of Widows in the Early Modern English
Courts of Law 342
22. The World of Recipes: Intellectual Culture in and around the Seventeenth-​Century Household 356
23. Daughters of the House: Women, Theatre, and Place in the Seventeenth Century 372
24. Changing Places: Relocating the Court Masque in Early Modern Women’s Writing 388
25. Race and Geographies of Escape in Elizabeth Cary’s
The Tragedy of Mariam 402
26. Archipelagic Feminism: Anglophone Poetry from Ireland,
Scotland, and Wales 414
PART IV TRANSLINGUAL AND TRANSNATIONAL 428
27. ‘Mistresses of tongues’: Early Modern Englishwomen,
Multilingual Practice, and Translingual Communication 430
28. ‘The Surplusage’: Margaret Tyler and the Englishing of Spanish Chivalric Romance 446
29. French Connections: English Women’s Writing and Préciosité 460
30. Old England And New in Anne Bradstreet’s Poetry 474
31. Early Modern Dutch and English Women Across Borders 488
32. Political Theory Across Borders 506
PART V NETWORKS AND COMMUNITIES 522
33. Networked Authorship in English Convents Abroad:
The Writings of Lucy Knatchbull 524
34. Gifts That Matter: Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth,
and the Prayers Or Meditations (1545) 538
35. Elizabeth Melville: Protestant Poetics, Publication, and
Propaganda 554
36. Desire, Dreams, Disguise: The Letters of Elizabeth Bourne 568
37. Women’s Letters and Cryptological Coteries 584
38. Non-​Elite Women and the Network, 1600–​1700 600
39. ‘On the Picture of Ye Prisoner’: Lucy Hutchinson and
the Image of the Imprisoned King 616
40. The Topopoetics of Retirement in Katherine Philips and
Lucy Hutchinson 632
41. Early Modern Women in Print and Margaret Cavendish,
Woman in Print 648
PART VI TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES 660
42. Editing Early Modern Women’s Writing: Tradition and Innovation 662
43. Reception, Reputation, and Afterlives 678
44. ‘A Telescope for the Mind’: Digital Modelling and Analysis of
Early Modern Women’s Writing 694
45. Material Texts: Women’s Paperwork in Early Modern England
and Mary Wroth’s Urania 710
46. Memory and Matter: Lady Anne Clifford’s ‘Life of Mee’ 724
47. Early Modern Women, Race, and Writing Revisited 740
48. Touches Across Time: Queer Feminism, Early Modern Studies,
and Aemilia Lanyer’s ‘Rich Chains’ 754
49. Untimely Developments: Periodisation, Early Modern Women’s Writing, and Literary History 772
Bibliography 786
Index 864

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