Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-288) and index.
Contents
Women's poetry and the Tudor-Stuart system of gift exchange / Jane Donawerth -- "More than feminine boldness" : the gift books of Esther Inglis / Georgianna Ziegler -- Patronage and class in Aemilia Lanyer's Salve deus rex judaeorum / Mary Ellen Lamb -- The education of a prince(ss) : tutoring the Tudors / Kathi Vosevich -- "When riches growes" : class perspective in Pembroke's Psalmes / Margaret P. Hannay -- Queen, lover, poet : a question of balance in the sonnets of Mary, Queen of Scots / Mary E. Burke -- "Some freely spake their minde" : resistance in Anne Dowriche's French historie / Elaine Beilin -- Mary Wroth and the politics of the household in "Pamphilia to Amphilanthus" / Linda L. Dove -- Elizabeth Cary's 'Edward II' : advice to women at the court of Charles I / Karen Nelson -- In defense of their lawful liberty : a letter sent by the Maydens of London / Ilona Bell -- Eve's dowry : Genesis and the pamphlet controversy about women / Barbara McManus -- Eleanor Davies and the prophetic office / Esther S. Cope -- St. Frideswide and St. Uncumber : changing images of female saints in Renaissance England / Carole Levin -- The reproduction of culture and the culture of reproduction in Elizabeth Clinton's 'The countesse of Lincolnes nurserie' / Marilyn Luecke.