Title: A companion to early modern women's writing /
Authors: Pacheco, Anita.
Publisher: Blackwell,
Year: 2002
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; English literature Women authors History and criticism; Women and literature Great Britain History; Women and literature Great Britain History
Contents: Women and education / Kenneth Charlton -- Religion and the construction of the feminine / Diane Willen -- Women, property and law / Tim Stretton -- Women and work / Sara H. Mendelson -- Women and writing / Margaret J.M. Ezell -- Isabella Whitney, A sweet nosegay / Patricia Brace -- Mary Sidney, countess of Pembroke, Psalmes / Debra K. Reinstra -- Aemilia Lanyer, Salve deus rex judaeorum / Susanne Woods -- Elizabeth Cary, The tragedy of Mariam and history / Elaine Beilin -- Mary Wroth, The countess of Montgomery's Urania / Naomi J. Miller -- Margaret Cavendish, A true relation of my birth, breeding and life / Gweno Williams -- Anna Trapnel, Anna Trapnel's report and plea / Hilary Hinds -- Katherine Philips, Poems / Elizabeth H. Hageman -- Aphra Behn, The rover, part one / Anita Pacheco -- Mary Astell, critic of the marriage contract/social contract analogue / Patricia Springborg -- Autobiography / Sheila Ottway -- Defences of women / Frances Teague and Rebecca De Haas -- Prophecy / Elaine Hobby -- Women's poetry 1550-1700: 'not unfit to be read' / Bronwen Price -- Prose fiction / Paul Salzman -- Drama / Sophie Tomlinson -- The work of women in the age of electronic reproduction: the canon, early modern women writers and the postmodern reader / Melinda Alliker Rabb -- Feminist historiography / Margo Hendricks.