Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Early Modern Women’s Material Texts: Production, Transmission and Reception....Pages 1-13
Women and the Materials of Writing....Pages 14-35
Dispensing Quails, Mincemeat, Leaven: Katherine Parr’s Patronage of the Paraphrases of Erasmus ....Pages 36-54
‘Le pouvoir de faire dire’: Marginalia in Mary Queen of Scots’ Book of Hours....Pages 55-75
Translation and Community in the Work of Elizabeth Cary....Pages 76-98
The ‘Great Queen of Lightninge Flashes’: The Transmission of Female-Voiced Burlesque Poetry in the Early Seventeenth Century....Pages 99-117
Katherine Philips, ‘Philo-Philippa’ and the Poetics of Association....Pages 118-139
Late Seventeenth-Century Women Writers and the Penny Post: Early Social Media Forms and Access to Celebrity....Pages 140-158
Henrietta’s Version: Mary Wroth’s Love’s Victory in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 159-173
‘One of the Finest Poems of that Nature I ever Read’: Quantitative Methodologies and the Reception of Early Modern Women’s Writing....Pages 174-193
Back Matter....Pages 194-214