Pacheco Anita (ed.) A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 416 p.This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing
Examines individual texts, including works by Mary Sidney, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn
Explores the historical context and generic diversity of early modern women's writing, as well as the theoretical issues that underpin its study
Provides a clear sense of the full extent of women's contributions to early modern literary culture.Women and Education
Kenneth CharltonReligion and the Construction of the Feminine
Diane WillenWomen, Property and Law
Tim StrettonWomen and Work
Sara H. MendelsonWomen and Writing
Margaret J. M. EzellIsabella Whitney, A Sweet Nosegay
Patricia BraceMary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Psalmes
Debra K. RienstraAemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
Susanne WoodsElizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam and History
Elaine BeilinMary Wroth, The Countess of Montgomery's Urania
Naomi J. MillerMargaret Cavendish, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life
Gweno WilliamsAnna Trapnel, Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea
Hilary HindsKatherine Philips, Poems
Elizabeth H. HagemanAphra Behn, The Rover, Part One
Anita PachecoMary Astell, Critic of the Marriage Contract/Social Contract Analogue
Patricia SpringborgAutobiography
Sheila OttwayDefences of Women
Frances Teague Rebecca De HaasProphecy
Elaine HobbyWomen's Poetry 1550–1700: ‘Not Unfit to be Read’
Bronwen PriceProse Fiction )
Paul SalzmanDrama
Sophie TomlinsonThe Work of Women in the Age of Electronic Reproduction: The Canon, Early Modern Women Writers and the Postmodern Reader
Melinda Alliker RabbFeminist Historiography
Margo Hendricks