Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Studying Early Modern Women Writers
2. Women in Early Modern England
Chiselling the Image, Unwinding the Rhetoric
Reading Early Modern Women's Writing
Educating Women
Praising and Blaming Women
Wiving and Thriving
Childbearing
3. The Genres of Early Modern Women's Writing
Translation
Margaret Beaufort, Margaret Roper, Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Bassett
Jane Lumley, the Cooke Sisters, Anne Vaughan Lock, Margaret Tyler, Mary Sidney Herbert
Theological Debate, Romantic Intrigue, and Classical Tragedy: Elizabeth Cary, Judith Man, Katherine Philips
Meditations and Testimonials
Prayers
Letters and Diaries
Poetry
Elizabethan poets: Isabella Whitney, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, Anne Vaughan lock, Lady Mary Sidney Herbert, Anne Dowriche, Elizabeth Melville
Esther Inglis and Elizabeth Jane Weston in the Republic of Letters
Jacobean polemical Talents: Aemilia Lanyer, Bathsua Reginald, Rachel Speght, Mary Wroth
Caroline, protectorate, and Restoration Poets' Complication of Early Modern Selfhood: Diana Primrose, Mary Fage, An Collins, 'Eliza', Elizabeth Major, Gertrude Thimelby, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Cavendish, Katherine Philips
Drama and the Dramatic
'Closet' Drama: translations, Adaptations, Original Creations
Mothers' Advice Books: Elizabeth Grymeston, Dorothy Leigh, Elizabeth Clinton, Elizabeth Joscelin, Elizabeth Richardson
Prophecies and Polemics, Petitions and Missionary Accounts: Radical Women and Godly Zeal
4. Six Major Authors
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621)
Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)
Elizabeth Tanfiled Cary, Viscountess of Falkland (1585-1639)
Lady Mary Wroth (1587-1653)
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673)
Katherine Philips, the Matchless Orinda (1632-1664)
