This anthology represents a re-examination of its field, based on extensive archival research. Each woman's work is accompanied by a headnote which combines bio

Viewing the poem as a social agent and product in women’s lives, the essays in this collection examine factors influencing the relationships between writers a

This text features 28 essays written by important international scholars on the major poems of the English Renaissance. It offers scholarship on subjects rangin

This collection examines early modern women’s contribution to the culturally central mode of complaint. Complaint has largely been understood as male-authored

The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in pub