Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index.
Contents
The scope of early modern women's writing -- Poets high and low, visible and invisible -- Mary Wroth : from obscurity to canonization -- Anne Clifford : writing a family identity -- Prophets and visionaries -- Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson : authorship and ownership -- Saint and sinner : Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn.