Producing Women's Poetry, 1600–1730

Gillian Wright is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham. She has published extensively on early modern women's writing and reading, and is especially interested in women's reception of classical literature and the print-manuscript nexus in female writing. She has worked with the Perdita project on manuscript compilations by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women, and her co-edited anthology Early Modern Women's Manuscript Poetry (2005) won the Josephine Roberts prize for the best edition of 2005, awarded by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Together with Hugh Adlington and Tom Lockwood, she is co-editor of the forthcoming Chaplains in Early Modern England: Patronage, Literature and Religion. She has also published on Samuel Daniel's The Civil Wars, editorial theory and the cultural influence of Stoic thinking in the early modern period.

• Introduction; 1. The resources of manuscript: Anne Southwell, readership and literary property; 2. The material muse: Anne Bradstreet in manuscript and print; 3. The extraordinary Katherine Philips; 4. The anxieties of agency: compilation, publicity and judgement in Anne Finch's poetry; 5. Publishing Marinda: Robert Molesworth, Mary Monck and Caroline of Ansbach; Conclusion: producing women's poetry.

'[A] subtle and important book … Wright probes difficult issues of authorship and intention, male and female control of texts, bringing to these questions sensitivity to literary form and scrupulous attention to material conditions.' Notes and Queries