Write or be Written

Contents: Introduction; I: Strategies and Contexts: Widow, prophet, and poet: lyrical self-figurations in Katherine Austenâs Book M (1664), Pamela Hammons; Public and Private in Aphra Behnâs Miscellanies: women writers, print, and manuscript, Anne Russell; Household Affaires are the Opium of the Soul: Damaris Masham and the necessity of womenâs poetry, Margaret J.M. Ezell; II: Poetic Conventions and Traditions: Mary Wrothâs guilty secrett art: the poetics of jealousy in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Clare R. Kinney; An emblem of themselves, in plum or pear: Poetry the female body and the country house, Jacqueline Pearson; So may I with the Psalmist truly say: early modern Englishwomenâs Psalm discourse, Margaret P. Hannay; III: Negotiating Power and Politics: The plural voices of Anne Askew, Joan Pong Linton; Mary Sidney and gendered strategies for the writing of poetry, Shannon Miller; Subdâd by You: states of friendship and friends of the State in Katherine Philipsâs poetry, Andrew Shifflett; IV: Writing the Female Poet: First Fruits of a Womanâs Wit: authorial self-construction of English Renaissance women poets, Helen Wilcox; A rhetoric of innocence: the poetry of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Bronwen Price; Very Like a Fiction: some early biographies of Aphra Behn, Jeslyn Medoff; Index.