Early Modern Women's Complaint

Sarah C. E. Ross is Associate Professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain (2015), the editor, with Paul Salzman, of Editing Early Modern Women (2016), and the editor, with Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, of Women Poets of the English Civil War (2017).Rosalind Smith is Professor of English at the Australian National University, Australia, and convenor of the Early Modern Women Research Network. Her publications include Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence (2005) and the edited collection (with Patricia Pender) Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (2014).

• 1. Introduction: Beyond Ovid: Early Modern Women’s Complaint; Sarah C. E. Ross and Rosalind Smith.- 2. Anne Lock and the Instructive Complaint; Susan M. Felch.- 3. Katherine Parr and Royal Religious Complaint: Complaining for and about Henry VIII; Micheline White.- 4. “Ane wyfis quarrel”: Complaining Women in Scottish Reformation Satire; Tricia A. McElroy.- 5. The Brief Ovidian Career of Isabella Whitney: From Heroidean to Tristian Complaint; Lindsay Ann Reid.- 6. Acts of Will: Countersovereignty and Complaining in The Tragedy of Mariam; Emily Shortslef.- 7. The Politics of Complaint in Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory and Urania Part Two; Paul Salzman.- 8. Animating Eve: Gender, Authority and Complaint; Danielle Clarke.-9. Complaint’s Echoes; Sarah C. E. Ross.- 10. Aphra Behn’s “Oenone to Paris,” John Dryden, and the Ovidian Complaint in Restoration Literary Culture; Gillian Wright.- 11.Complaint in the Wilderness: Mary Rowlandson Speaks with Job; Susan Wiseman.- 12. Anne Killigrew and the Restoration of Complaint; Kate Lilley.- 13. From Manuscripts to Metadata: Understanding and Structuring Female-Attributed Complaints; Marie-Louise Coolahan and Erin McCarthy.- 14. Women’s Complaint, 1530-1680: Taxonomy, Voice and the Index in the Digital Age; Jake Arthur and Rosalind Smith.- 15. “Past the Help of Law”: Epyllia and the Female Complaint; Lynn Enterline.

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