Early Modern Women's Writing

Martine van Elk is Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She has published extensively on Shakespeare, early modern vagrants, and early modern English and Dutch women writers.

1. Introduction.- 2. Women, Literacy, and Domesticity in the Public Imagination.- 3. Muses and Patrons: Mary Sidney Herbert and Anna Roemers Visscher.- 4. Friends, Lovers, and Rivals: Katharina Lescailje, Cornelia van der Veer, and Katherine Philips.- 5. Education and Reputation: Anna Maria van Schurman and Margaret Cavendish.- 6. Staging Female Virtue: Elizabeth Cary and Katharina Lescailje.- Afterword.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-