Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance

MARION WYNNE-DAVIES teaches English Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Dundee, UK. Her publications include Renaissance Women Dramatists: Texts and Documents (with S.P. Cerasano). She has also published on Shakespeare, Jonson and other early modern authors, as well as on women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: English Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the Renaissance 'Though a temporall man, yet your very spirituall father': The Roper/Basset Line and the Lives of Thomas More 'Sory coumfortlesse Orphanes': The Rastell/Heywood Line Worthy of their Blood and their Vocation: The More/Cresacre Line Representations of Relations on the Political Stage within the Fitzalan/Lumley Household 'As I, for one, who thus my habits change': Mary Wroth and the Abandonment of the Sidney/Herbert Familial Discourse Sisters and Brothers: Divided Sibling Identity in the Cary Family Desire, Chastity and Rape in the Cavendish Familial Discourse Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index