History of British Women's Writing, 1500-1610

Caroline Bicks, Associate Professor of English, Boston College, USAHeidi Brayman Hackel, Associate Professor of English, University of California at Riverside, USAPamela Allen Brown, Associate Professor of English, University of Connecticut, Stamford, USAChristine Coch, Associate Professor of English, The College of the Holy Cross, USAA.E.B. Coldiron Associate Professor of English, Florida State University, USAJulie Crawford, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USASujata Iyengar, Associate Professor of English, University of Georgia, USA Chris Laoutaris, British Academy Post Doctoral Fellow, University College London, UK Lynne Magnusson, Professor of English, University of Toronto, CanadaCatherine Richardson, Director of the Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent, UKCarolyn Sale, Assistant Professor of English, University of Alberta, CanadaEdith Snook, Associate Professor of English, University of New Brunswick, CanadaJennifer Summit, Professor and Chair in the Department of English, Stanford University, USAEma Vyroubalová, Doctoral Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, USANancy Bradley Warren, Professor of English and Courtesy Professor of Religion, Florida State University, USAMarion Wynne-Davies, Chair of English Literature, University of Surrey, UK

• List of Figures Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chronology; E.Vyroubalová Introduction; C.Bicks & J.Summit PART I: READING AND WRITING Reading Women; H.Brayman Hackel Literary Circles and Coteries; J.Crawford Women in Early English Print Culture; A.Coldiron PART II: COMESTIC SETTINGS Household Writing; C.Richardson Maternal Advice; E.Snook Letters; L.Magnusson PART III: PLAYING SPACES The Street; P.A.Brown The Theater; M.Wynne-Davies PART IV: THE TUDOR COURT The Court; C.Sale Elizabeth I; C.Coch PART V: DEVELOPING HISTORIES Religious Writing and Reformation; N.Bradley Warren Race and Skin Color in Early Modern Women's Writing; S.Iyengar Translation/Historical Writing; C.Laoutaris Bibliography Index

Winner of the 2011 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Collaborative Project Award'This is a landmark volume, and one which will give new direction to the study of early modern women and the multiple ways in which they were active participants in the literary culture of the sixteenth century.' - Margaret Ezell, Distinguished Professor of English, Texas A&M University, USA'This highly stimulating set of essays is the second in a series of volumes charting the history of British women's writing...This volume of essays takes the diversity of female reading and writing practices as its starting point. It also builds on very recent interest in women's productive participation in literary networks and in cultural communities of various sorts, as well as developing the growing literature on the valences of early modern spaces...The authors of these essays have mobilized this and other currents of early modern scholarship to fashion an effective, revisionary historiography. Using this framework, the essays succeed admirably in making timely and productive connections between women's writing and the multifarious spaces and discourses that women inhabited in early modern Britain...In sum, this collection offers a richly detailed and nuanced, fresh topography ofwomen's writing of this era that is astute in scholarship and attuned to the latest developments in the field.' - Femke Molekamp, Renaissance Quarterly