This anthology represents a re-examination of its field, based on extensive archival research. Each woman's work is accompanied by a headnote which combines bio
In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imag
Although the field of early modern women's studies has blossomed in recent years, little attention has been paid to women poets of the period. This new collecti
This volume includes leading scholarship on five writers active in the first half of the sixteenth century: Margaret More Roper, Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Mil
Early modern women's manuscript poetry is an anthology of texts by fourteen women poets writing between 1589 and 1706. It is the only currently available anthol