Early Modern Women's Manuscript Writing : Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 'Desiring Women Writing': Female Voices and Courtly 'Balets' in some Early Tudor Manuscript Albums -- 2 Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth and the Crucified Christ -- 3 Mildred Cecil, Lady Burleigh: Poetry, Politics and Protestantism -- 4 Reading Friends: Women's Participation in 'Masculine' Literary Culture -- 5 Caitlín Dubh's Keens: Literary Negotiations in Early Modern Ireland -- 6 Lady Anne Southwell's Indictment of Adam -- 7 Reading Bells and Loose Papers: Reading and Writing Practices of the English Benedictine Nuns of Cambrai and Paris -- 8 The Notebooks of Rachael Fane: Education for Authorship? -- 9 'And Trophes of his praises make': Providence and Poetry in Katherine Austen's Book M, 1664-1668 -- 10 The Books, Manuscripts and Literary Patronage of Mrs Anne Sadleir (1585-1670) -- 11 Perfecting Practice? Women, Manuscript Recipes and Knowledge in Early Modern England -- 12 'Often to my Self I make my mone': Early Modern Women's Poetry From the Feilding Family -- Index.

Emphasizing manuscript writings in English and their social, political, and religious contexts, the contributors to this collection challenge commonly held notions about women's writing in the early modern period, and bring to light many women whose work has not been considered before.

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