Title: Writing women in Jacobean England /
Authors: Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, 1931-2018
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Anne,; Elizabeth,; Stuart, Arabella,; Russell, Lucy Harington,; Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert,; Speght, Rachel; Cary, Elizabeth,; Lanyer, Aemilia; Wroth, Mary,; English literature History and criticism; English literature Women authors History and criticism; Women and literature England History
Contents: Introduction: Women, writing, and resistance in Jacobean England. I. The royal opposition. 1. Enacting opposition: Queen Anne and the subversions of masquing. 2. Scripting a heroine's role: Princess Elizabeth and the politics of romance. 3. Writing resistance in letters: Arbella Stuart and the rhetoric of disguise and defiance. II. Re-writing patriarchy. 4. Exercising power: the Countess of Bedford as courtier, patron, and coterie poet. 5. Claiming patrimony and constructing a self: Anne Clifford and her Diary. 6. Defending women's essential equality: Rachel Speght's polemics and poems. III. Literary re-visions. 7. Resisting tyrants: Elizabeth Cary's tragedy and history. 8. Imagining female community: Aemilia Lanyer's poems. 9. Revising genres and claiming the woman's part: Mary Wroth's oeuvre. Afterword: The politics of Jacobean women's writing. Appendix A: Elizabeth, Lady Falkland, and the authorship of Edward II. Appendix B: Presentation copies of Lanyer's Salve Deus rex judaeorum.