Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: making sects: women as reformers, writers, and subjects in reformation England
  • The death of the author (and the appropriation of her text): the case of Anne Askew's Examinations
  • Representing the faith of a nation: transitional spirituality in the works of Katherine Parr
  • [A] pen to paynt': Mary Sidney Herbert and the problems of a Protestant poetics
  • A new Jerusalem: Anne Lok's Meditation and the lyric voice
  • A womans writing of diuinest things: Aemilia Lanyer's passion for a professional poetic vocation.