Selected Bibliography
Manuscript Sources
Beinecke Library, Yale University | Osborn b421 (Calthorpe) |
Brotherton Library, University of Leeds | MS. Lt q 2 (Roper) |
Folger Shakespeare Library | MS. V.b.198 (Southwell) |
Printed Primary Sources
Astell, Mary. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part I. London, 1694.
Barker, Jane. Poetical Recreations, Part I. London, 1688.
Cavendish, Margaret. Poems and Fancies. London, 1653.
Chudleigh, Mary. The Ladies’ Defense. London, 1701.
Clinton, Elizabeth. The Countess of Lincoln’s Nursery. London, 1622.
Egerton, Sarah Fyge. The Female Advocate. Second edition. London, 1687.
Hutchinson, Lucy. Order and Disorder. London, 1679.
Lanyer, Aemilia. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. London, 1611.
Leigh, Dorothy. The Mother’s Blessing. London, 1616.
Makin, Bathsua. An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen. London, 1673.
Philips, Katherine. Poems. London, 1667.
Sharpe, Joan. “A Defense of Women,” in Esther Sowernam, Esther Hath Hang’d Haman. London, 1617. Sigs. H1r–H3r.
Sowernam, Esther. Esther Hath Hang’d Haman. London, 1617.
Speght, Rachel. A Muzzle for Melastomus. London, 1617.
Sutcliffe, Alice. Meditations of Man’s Mortality. London, 1634.
Related Early Texts, Modern Editions,
and Anthologies
Augustine of Hippo. City of God. Trans. Henry Bettenson. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
Brown, Sylvia, ed. Women’s Writing in Stuart England: The Mothers’ Legacies of Dorothy Leigh, Elizabeth Joscelin, and Elizabeth Richardson. Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing, 1999.
Cary, Elizabeth. The Tragedy of Miriam, Fair Queen of Jewry. Ed. Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Cavendish, Margaret. Poems and Fancies. In Renaissance Writers Online. Women Writers Project. Brown University. 2 June 2009 http://www.wwp.brown.edu/texts/wwoentry.html
Clarke, Danielle, ed. Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Amelia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets. New York: Penguin, 2000.
Cleaver, Robert. A Godly Form of Household Government. London, 1598.
Defenses of Women: Jane Anger, Rachel Speght, Ester Sowernam and Constantia Munda. In The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Part 1. Vol. 4. Selected and introduced by Susan Gushee O’Malley. Aldershot: Scholar, 1996.
Ezell, Margaret J.M., ed. The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Ferguson, Moira, ed. First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578–1799. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Filmer, Sir Robert. Patriarcha and Other Writings. Ed. Johann P. Sommerville. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Fitzmaurice, James, Josephine A. Roberts, Carol L. Barash, Eugene R. Cunnar, and Nancy A. Gutierrez, eds. Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Gouge, William. Of Domestical Duties. London, 1622.
Greer, Germaine, Susan Hastings, Jeslyn Medoff, and Melinda Sansone, eds. Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women’s Verse. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1989.
Hart, Clive, ed. and trans. Disputatio Nova Contra Mulieres/A New Argument Against Women: A Critical Translation from the Latin with Commentary, Together with the Original Latin Text of 1595. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.
Henderson, Katherine Usher, and Barbara F. McManus, eds. Half Humankind: Contexts and Texts of the Controversy about Women in England, 1540–1640. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
Hodgson-Wright, Stephanie, ed. Women’s Writing of the Early Modern Period, 1588–1688: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
James I (King of England). Works. London, 1616.
Keeble, N.H., ed. The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-Century Woman: A Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
King, Kathryn, ed. The Poems of Jane Barker: The Magdalen Manuscript. Oxford: Magdalen College, 1998.
Klene, Jean, ed. The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book: Folger MS. V.b.198. MRTS 147. Tempe: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1997.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, ed. The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Luther, Martin. Selections from His Writings. Ed. John Dillenberger. New York: Anchor Books, 1958.
Martin, Randall, ed. Women Writers in Renaissance England. London and New York: Longman, 1997.
Millman, Jill Seal, and Gillian Wright, eds. Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Poetry. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.
Mother’s Advice Books. In The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Part 2. Vol. 8. Selected and introduced by Betty S. Travitsky. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.
Norbrook, David, ed. Lucy Hutchinson: Order and Disorder. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
Ostovich, Helen, and Elizabeth Sauer, eds. Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550–1700. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Perkins, William. Christian Economy. London, 1609.
The Poets, I: Isabella Whitney, Anne Dowriche, Elizabeth Melville [Colville], Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Diana Primrose, Anne, Mary and Penelope Grey. In The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Part 2. Vol. 10. Selected and introduced by Susanne Woods, Betty S. Travitsky, and Patrick Cullen. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.
Quehen, Hugh de, ed. Lucy Hutchinson’s Translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Salzman, Paul, ed. Early Modern Women’s Writing: An Anthology, 1560–1700. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Shepherd, Simon, ed. The Woman’s Sharp Revenge: Five Women’s Pamphlets from the Renaissance. London: Fourth Estate, 1985.
Springborg, Patricia, ed. Mary Astell: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II. London: Pickering and Chatto, 1997. Repr. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002.
Stevenson, Jane, and Peter Davidson, eds. Early Modern Women Poets (1520–1700): An Anthology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of. Recreations with the Muses. London, 1637.
Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1998.
Thomas, Patrick, ed. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips: The Matchless Orinda. Stump Cross, Essex: Stump Cross Books, 1990.
Travitsky, Betty. The Paradise of Women: Writings by Englishwomen of the Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
———, and Anne Lake Prescott, eds. Female and Male Voices in Renaissance England: An Anthology of Renaissance Writing. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Trill, Suzanne, Kate Chedgzoy, and Melanie Osborne, eds. Lay By Your Needles Ladies, Take the Pen: Writing Women in England, 1500–1700. New York: St. Martin’s, 1997.
Wilson, Katharina M., and Frank J. Warnke, eds. Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
Woods, Susanne, ed. The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Wynne-Davies, Marion, ed. Women Poets of the Renaissance. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Relevant Critical Studies
Achinstein, Sharon, and Elizabeth Sauer, eds. Milton and Toleration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Amussen, Susan Dwyer. An Ordered Society: Gender and Class in Early Modern England. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Atwood, Margaret. The Penelopiad. New York: Cannongate, 2005.
Barash, Carol. English Women’s Poetry, 1649–1714: Politics, Community, and Linguistic Authority. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
———. “‘The Native Liberty … of the Subject’: Configurations of Gender and Authority in the Works of Mary Chudleigh, Sarah Fyge Egerton, and Mary Astell.” In Women, Writing, History: 1640–1799, ed. Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman, 55–69. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
Barnstone, Aliki. “Women and the Garden: Andrew Marvell, Emilia Lanier, and Emily Dickinson.” Women and Literature 2 (1982): 147–67.
Baylor, Michael G., ed. and trans. Radical Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Beilin, Elaine V. Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Bennett, Joan S. “Mary Astell, Lucy Hutchinson, John Milton, and Feminist Liberation Theology.” In Milton in the Age of Fish: Essays on Authorship, Text, and Terrorism, ed. Michael Lieb and Albert C. Labriola, 139–66. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2006.
Bowers, Toni. “Jacobite Difference and the Poetry of Jane Barker.” ELH 64 (1997): 857–69.
Brink, Jean R. “Bathsua Reginald Makin: ‘Most Learned Matron’.” Huntington Library Quarterly 54 (1991): 313–26.
Brown, Pamela Allen. Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Burke, Mary E., Jane Donawerth, Linda L. Dove, and Karen Nelson, eds. Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Burke, Victoria E. “Medium and Meaning in the Manuscripts of Anne, Lady Southwell.” In Women’s Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550–1800, ed. George L. Justice and Nathan Tinker, 94–120. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Campbell, Gordon. Bible: The Story of the King James Version, 1611–2011. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Carruthers, Jo. “‘Neither Maide, Wife or Widow’: Ester Sowernam and the Book of Esther.” Prose Studies 26 (2003): 321–43.
Casanova, Jorge. “‘Hell in Epitomy’: Jane Barker’s Visions and Recreations.” In Re-Shaping the Genres: Restoration Women Writers, ed. Zenón Luis-Martínez and Jorge Figueroa-Dorrego, 67–96. Bern: Peter Lang, 2003.
Chalmers, Hero. Royalist Women Writers, 1650–1689. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Clarke, Elizabeth. “Anne Southwell and the Pamphlet Debate: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Manuscript.” In Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700, ed. Malcolmson and Suzuki, 37–53.
Collinson, Patrick. The Birthpangs of Protestant England: Religious and Cultural Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988.
Craig, Martha J. “‘Write it upon the walles of your houses’: Dorothy Leigh’s The Mothers Blessing.” In Women’s Life-Writing: Finding Voice/Building Community, ed. Linda S. Coleman, 191–208. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Press, 1997.
Crawford, Patricia. “Women’s Published Writings, 1600–1700.” In Women in English Society, 1500–1800, ed, Mary Prior, 211–82. London and New York: Routledge, 1985.
———. Women and Religion in England 1500–1720. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Cressy, David, and Lori Anne Ferrell, eds. Religion and Society in Early Modern England: A Sourcebook. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
Cummings, Brian. The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
DeZur, Kathryn. “‘Vaine Books’ and Early Modern Women Readers.” In Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Ian Frederick Moulton, 105–25. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004.
Dowd, Michelle M., and Julie A. Eckerle. Introduction to Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England, ed. Dowd and Eckerle, 1–13. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Eco, Umberto. The Search for the Perfect Language. Trans. James Fentress. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
Ezell, Margaret J.M. “The Politics of the Past: Restoration Women Writers on Women Reading History.” In Pilgrimage for Love: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of Josephine A. Roberts, ed. Sigrid King, 19–40. MRTS 213. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999.
Fildes, Valerie. Wet Nursing: A History from Antiquity to the Present. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
Freedman, John Block. “Antichrist and the Iconography of Dante’s Geryon,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 25 (1972): 108–22.
Gilbert, Sandra M. “Patriarchal Poetry and Women Readers: Reflections on Milton’s Bogey.” PMLA 93 (1978): 368–82.
Goldberg, Jonathan. “Lucy Hutchinson Writing Matter.” ELH 73 (2006): 275–301.
Gough, Melinda J. “Women’s Popular Culture? Teaching the Swetnam Controversy.” In Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700, ed. Malcolmson and Suzuki, 79–100.
Gray, Catharine. “Feeding on the Seed of the Woman: Dorothy Leigh and the Figure of Maternal Dissent.” ELH 68 (2001): 563–92.
Green, Lawrence D. “Grammatica Movet: Renaissance Grammar Books and Elocutio.” In Rhetorica Movet: Studies in Historical and Modern Rhetoric in Honour of Heinrich F. Plett, ed. Peter L. Oesterreich and Thomas O. Sloane, 73–116. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
Guibbory, Achsah. “The Gospel According to Aemilia: Women and the Sacred in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.” In Sacred and Profane: Secular and Devotional Interplay in Early Modern British Literature, ed. Helen Wilcox, Richard Todd, and Alasdair MacDonald, 105–26. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit University Press, 1996.
Hammond, Gerald. “Translations of the Bible.” In A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed. Michael Hattaway, 165–75. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000.
Hannay, Margaret P., ed. Silent But For the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1985.
——— and Susanne Woods, eds. Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. New York: Modern Language Association, 2000.
Helm, James L. “Bathsua Makin’s An Essay to Revive the Education of Gentlewomen in the Canon of Seventeenth-Century Educational Reform Tracts.” Cahiers Elisabethains 44 (1993): 45–51.
Henriksen, Erin. “Dressed as Esther: The Value of Concealment in Ester Sowernam’s Biblical Pseudonym.” Women’s Writing 10 (2003): 153–67.
Hill, Christopher. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution. New York: Viking, 1972.
Hobby, Elaine. Virtue of Necessity: English Women’s Writing 1649–1688. London: Virago, 1988.
Jones, Ann Rosalind. “Counterattacks on ‘the Bayter of Women’: Three Pamphleteers of the Early Seventeenth Century.” In The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon, ed. Anne M. Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky, 45–62. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990.
———. “From Polemical Prose to the Red Bull: The Swetnam Controversy in Women-Voiced Pamphlets and the Public Theater.” In The Project of Prose in Early Modern Europe and the New World, ed. Elizabeth Fowler and Roland Greene, 122–37. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Jordan, Constance. Renaissance Feminism: Literary Texts and Political Models. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
King, John N., ed. Voices of the English Reformation: A Sourcebook. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
King, Kathryn R. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652–1732): The Documentary Record.” Eighteenth-Century Life 21.3 (1997): 16–38.
———. “Jane Barker, Poetical Recreations, and the Sociable Text.” ELH 61 (1994): 551–70.
King, Margaret. Women of the Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Klene, Jean. “‘Monument of an Endless Affection’: Folger MS V.b.198 and Lady Anne Southwell.” English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700 9 (2000): 165–86.
———. “Working with a Complex Document: The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book.” In New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill, 169–75. MRTS 270. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004.
Kolbrener, William. “‘Forc’d into an Interest’: High Church Politics and Feminine Agency in the Works of Mary Astell.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 10 (2004): 3–31.
Kolbrener, William, ed. Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Lake, Peter. “Calvinism and the English Church 1570–1635.” In Reformation to Revolution: Politics and Religion in Early Modern England, ed. Todd, 180–207.
Lamb, Mary Ellen. “The Cooke Sisters: Attitudes toward Learned Women in the Renaissance.” In Silent but for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works, ed. Hannay, 107–25.
Laurence, Anne. Women in England 1500–1760: A Social History. London: Phoenix Giant, 1996.
Le Guin, Ursula K. Lavinia: A Novel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer. Writing Women in Jacobean England. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Loewenstein, David, and John Morrill. “Literature and Religion.” In The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, ed. Loewenstein and Janel Mueller, 644–713. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Longfellow, Erica. “Lady Anne Southwell’s Indictment of Adam.” In Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Writing: Selected Papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium, ed. Victoria E. Burke and Jonathan Gibson, 111–33. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004.
———. Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Love, Harold. The Culture and Commerce of Texts: Scribal Publication in Seventeenth-Century England. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
Luecke, Marilyn. “The Reproduction of Culture and the Culture of Reproduction in Elizabeth Clinton’s The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie.” In Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain, ed. Burke et al. 238–52.
Macey, David J. “Eden Revisited: Re-Visions of the Garden in Astell’s Serious Proposal, Scott’s Millenium Hall, and Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 9 (1997): 161–82.
Maguire, Laurie. Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Malcolmsen, Cristina, and Mihoko Suzuki, eds. Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Matchinske, Megan. “Legislating ‘Middle-Class’ Morality in the Marriage Market: Ester Sowernam’s Ester Hath Hang’d Haman.” English Literary Renaissance 24 (1994): 154–83.
Mayer, Robert. “Lucy Hutchinson: A Life of Writing.” Seventeenth Century 22 (2007): 305–35.
McColley, Diane Kelsey. Milton’s Eve. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983.
McGrath, Alister E. The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
McManus, Barbara. “Eve’s Dowry: Genesis and the Pamphlet Controversy about Women.” In Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain, ed. Burke et al., 193–206.
Medoff, Jeslyn. “New Light on Sarah Fyge (Field, Egerton).” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 1 (1982): 155–75.
Mendelson, Sara, and Patricia Crawford. Women in Early Modern England 1550–1720. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
Miller, Nancy Weitz. “Ethos, Authority, and Virtue for Seventeenth-Century Women Writers: The Case of Bathsua Makin’s Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen (1673).” In Listening to Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women, ed. Molly Meijer Wertheimer, 272–87. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1997.
Miller, Shannon. Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
———. “Maternity, Marriage, and Contract: Lucy Hutchinson’s Response to Patriarchal Theory in Order and Disorder.” Studies in Philology 102 (2005): 340–77.
———. “Serpentine Eve: Milton and the Seventeenth-Century Debate Over Women.” Milton Quarterly 42 (2008): 44–68.
Mills, Rebecca. “Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656–1710): Poet, Protofeminist and Patron.” In Women and Poetry, 1660–1750, ed. Prescott and Shuttleton, 50–59.
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———. “Lucy Hutchinson and Order and Disorder: The Manuscript Evidence.” English Manuscript Studies 1100–1700 9 (2000): 257–91.
———. “Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson: Identity, Ideology and Politics.” In-between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism 9 (2000): 179–203.
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——— and Margaret Hannay, eds. Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. New York: MLA, 2000.
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