Table of 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.