Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration

Patricia Pender is Senior Lecturer in English and Writing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Palgrave, 2012) and co-editor, with Rosalind Smith, of Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (Palgrave, 2014).

• Introduction: Patricia Pender.- “A veray patronesse”: Margaret Beaufort and the Early English Printers: Patricia Pender.- Henry VIII, Katherine Parr, and Literary Collaboration: Micheline White.- “The Learning of a Cleric, the Life of a Saint”: Collaboration and Collusion in the Construction of Lady Jane Grey: Louise Horton.- Collaboration and the Lumley/ Fitzalan family manuscripts: Alexandra Day.- Early modern women’s marginalia as collaborative textual practice: Rosalind Smith.- Collaborative Authorship and the Speeches of Queen Elizabeth I: Leah S. Marcus.- Notions of Gender, Authorship, and Collaboration in Paratexts Prefacing Early Modern Englishwomen’s Translations: Brenda M. Hosington.- Is literary patronage a form of literary collaboration?: Julie Crawford.- Correcting The Mothers Legacy: The Rationale of Goad’s Emendations: Rebecca Stark-Gendrano.- “Mercurial Women”:  Late Seventeenth-Century English Women and the Print Ephemera Trades: Margaret J.M. Ezell.

“This is a groundbreaking collection, which demonstrates the multiple (and sometimes wonderfully unexpected) ways in which early modern women authored texts.” (Paula Mcquade, Early Modern Women Journal, Vol. 15 (1), 2020)