David Ainsworth is Associate Professor of English and a faculty member in the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. His most recent project, Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation, constructs a methodology for reading Milton’s works through musical concepts, while arguing that Milton himself uses musical metaphors to capture the ineffable characteristics of the divine. Thomas Festa is Professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is the author of The End of Learning: Milton and Education (2006) and some two dozen scholarly articles as well as co-editor of the award-winning feminist teaching anthology, Early Modern Women on the Fall (2012), and two previous essay collections dedicated to Milton’s works, Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment (2017) and Scholarly Milton (2019).

• Introduction David Ainsworth1 To Be Taken as a Woman Writer: Lucy Hutchinson and John Milton Lara Dodds and Michelle M. DowdI COLLABORATION2 The Largely Forgotten Service of Isabel Webber to the Milton Family Edward Jones3 Eve Writes Back: Feminist Adaptations of Paradise Lost Monica Wolfe4 Who is Listening? Alice Egerton, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, and Queer Erotics Erin MurphyII CONJUNCTION5 John Milton and Lucy Hutchinson: Politics, Theology, and the Origins of the English Revolution David Norbrook6 “Tis now our best grace to be wild & rude”: Vengeful Nature and Times in Lucy Hutchinson’s “Elegies” Alexandria MorganIII EXPERIMENTATION7 Milton’s Classroom: Erasmus, Civic Humanism, and the Instruction of Child-Figures in Paradise Lost Chloe Brooke8 “Pernicious and perplexed”: The Repudiations of Lucy Hutchinson in Order and Disorder J. Antonio Templanza9 Paradise Lost and Eve’s Experimental Fall William John Silverman, Jr.Conclusion David Ainsworth

David Ainsworth is Associate Professor of English and a faculty member in the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. His most recent project, Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation, constructs a methodology for reading Milton’s works through musical concepts, while arguing that Milton himself uses musical metaphors to capture the ineffable characteristics of the divine. Thomas Festa is Professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is the author of The End of Learning: Milton and Education (2006) and some two dozen scholarly articles as well as co-editor of the award-winning feminist teaching anthology, Early Modern Women on the Fall (2012), and two previous essay collections dedicated to Milton’s works, Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment (2017) and Scholarly Milton (2019).

• Introduction David Ainsworth1 To Be Taken as a Woman Writer: Lucy Hutchinson and John Milton Lara Dodds and Michelle M. DowdI COLLABORATION2 The Largely Forgotten Service of Isabel Webber to the Milton Family Edward Jones3 Eve Writes Back: Feminist Adaptations of Paradise Lost Monica Wolfe4 Who is Listening? Alice Egerton, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, and Queer Erotics Erin MurphyII CONJUNCTION5 John Milton and Lucy Hutchinson: Politics, Theology, and the Origins of the English Revolution David Norbrook6 “Tis now our best grace to be wild & rude”: Vengeful Nature and Times in Lucy Hutchinson’s “Elegies” Alexandria MorganIII EXPERIMENTATION7 Milton’s Classroom: Erasmus, Civic Humanism, and the Instruction of Child-Figures in Paradise Lost Chloe Brooke8 “Pernicious and perplexed”: The Repudiations of Lucy Hutchinson in Order and Disorder J. Antonio Templanza9 Paradise Lost and Eve’s Experimental Fall William John Silverman, Jr.Conclusion David Ainsworth

David Ainsworth is Associate Professor of English and a faculty member in the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. His most recent project, Milton, Music and Literary Interpretation, constructs a methodology for reading Milton’s works through musical concepts, while arguing that Milton himself uses musical metaphors to capture the ineffable characteristics of the divine. Thomas Festa is Professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is the author of The End of Learning: Milton and Education (2006) and some two dozen scholarly articles as well as co-editor of the award-winning feminist teaching anthology, Early Modern Women on the Fall (2012), and two previous essay collections dedicated to Milton’s works, Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment (2017) and Scholarly Milton (2019).

• Introduction David Ainsworth1 To Be Taken as a Woman Writer: Lucy Hutchinson and John Milton Lara Dodds and Michelle M. DowdI COLLABORATION2 The Largely Forgotten Service of Isabel Webber to the Milton Family Edward Jones3 Eve Writes Back: Feminist Adaptations of Paradise Lost Monica Wolfe4 Who is Listening? Alice Egerton, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, and Queer Erotics Erin MurphyII CONJUNCTION5 John Milton and Lucy Hutchinson: Politics, Theology, and the Origins of the English Revolution David Norbrook6 “Tis now our best grace to be wild & rude”: Vengeful Nature and Times in Lucy Hutchinson’s “Elegies” Alexandria MorganIII EXPERIMENTATION7 Milton’s Classroom: Erasmus, Civic Humanism, and the Instruction of Child-Figures in Paradise Lost Chloe Brooke8 “Pernicious and perplexed”: The Repudiations of Lucy Hutchinson in Order and Disorder J. Antonio Templanza9 Paradise Lost and Eve’s Experimental Fall William John Silverman, Jr.Conclusion David Ainsworth