English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625 (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Contents: Introduction: women, religious communities, intertextual prose genres, and textual production, Micheline White; Part I Women and Religious Communities: Living stones: Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation, Patricia Phillippy; 'Theise dearest offrings of my heart': the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes, Mary Trull; Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage, Susannah Brietz Monta; 'Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare': Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations of the restoration of English Franciscanism, Jaime Goodrich; Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare, Julie Crawford. Part II Reading Intertextual Prose Genres: Prospecting for common ground in devotion: Queen Katherine Parr's personal prayerbook, Janel Mueller; 'Halff a scrypture woman': heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill, Susan M. Felch; Authority, scripture, and typography in Lady Grace Mildmay's manuscript meditations, Kate Narveson; Lady Margaret Beaufort's translations as mirrors of practical piety, Brenda M. Hosington; 'Neither bitterly nor brablingly': Lady Anne Cooke Bacon's translation of Bishop Jewel's Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, Patricia Demers; Works cited; Index.