This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the way

This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the way

This book contains the first comprehensive account of writing by women from the mid sixteenth century through to 1700. At the same time, it traces the way a rep

In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imag

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