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A C O M P A N I O N T O E M ARLY ODERN W ’ W OMEN S RITING EDITED BY ANITA PACHECO A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements, and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field. 1 A Companion to Romanticism Edited by Duncan Wu 2 A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture Edited by Herbert F. Tucker 3 A Companion to Shakespeare Edited by David Scott Kastan 4 A Companion to the Gothic Edited by David Punter 5 A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare Edited by Dympna Callaghan 6 A Companion to Chaucer Edited by Peter Brown 7 A Companion to English Literature from Milton to Blake Edited by David Womersley 8 A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture Edited by Michael Hattaway 9 A Companion to Milton Edited by Thomas N. Corns 10 A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry Edited by Neil Roberts 11 A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature Edited by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne 12 A Companion to Restoration Drama Edited by Susan J. Owen 13 A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing Edited by Anita Pacheco 14 A Companion to English Renaissance Drama Edited by Arthur Kinney 15 A Companion to Victorian Poetry Edited by Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman and Anthony Harrison 16 A Companion to the Victorian Novel Edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing A C O M P A N I O N T O E M ARLY ODERN W ’ W OMEN S RITING EDITED BY ANITA PACHECO Copyright © Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2002 Editorial matter, selection and arrangement copyright © Anita Pacheco 2002 Editorial Offices: 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF, UK Tel: +44 (0)1865 791100 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5018, USA Tel: +1 781 388 8250 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published 2002 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, a Blackwell Publishing company Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for. ISBN 0-631-21702-9 (hbk) A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Set in 11 on 13 pt Garamond 3 by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong Printed and bound by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall For further information on Blackwell Publishers, visit our website: www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk For my mother Contents Notes on Contributors x Introduction xiv PART ONE Contexts 1 1 Women and Education 3 Kenneth Charlton 2 Religion and the Construction of the Feminine 22 Diane Willen 3 Women, Property and Law 40 Tim Stretton 4 Women and Work 58 Sara H. Mendelson 5 Women and Writing 77 Margaret J. M. Ezell PART TWO Readings 95 6 Isabella Whitney, A Sweet Nosegay 97 Patricia Brace 7 Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Psalmes 110 Debra K. Rienstra viii Contents 8 Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 125 Susanne Woods 9 Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam and History 136 Elaine Beilin 10 Mary Wroth, The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania 150 Naomi J. Miller 11 Margaret Cavendish, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life 165 Gweno Williams 12 Anna Trapnel, Anna Trapnel’s Report and Plea 177 Hilary Hinds 13 Katherine Philips, Poems 189 Elizabeth H. Hageman 14 Aphra Behn, The Rover, Part One 203 Anita Pacheco 15 Mary Astell, Critic of the Marriage Contract/Social Contract Analogue 216 Patricia Springborg PART THREE Genres 229 16 Autobiography 231 Sheila Ottway 17 Defences of Women 248 Frances Teague and Rebecca De Haas 18 Prophecy 264 Elaine Hobby 19 Women’s Poetry 1550–1700: ‘Not Unfit to be Read’ 282 Bronwen Price 20 Prose Fiction 303 Paul Salzman 21 Drama 317 Sophie Tomlinson

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