Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Imagining An Collins / W. Scott Howard
  • An Collins: fiction and artifact / Stanley Stewart
  • Meditation and rhetoric in "The discourse" / Lyn Bennett
  • An Collins and the disabled self / Susannah B. Mintz
  • The "finenesse" of devotional poetry: An Collins and the School of Herbert / Helen Wilcox
  • Garden and antigarden in The song of songs and Divine songs and meditacions / Mary Eleanor Norcliffe
  • Bearing their crosses with alacrity: An Collins and Marie de l'Incarnation / Patricia Demers
  • An Collins and the life of writing / Sidney Gottlieb
  • "[T]ouching the ground of truth": An Collins and sectarian spiritual autobiography / Marie Loughlin
  • The "image of her mind": self, dissent, and femininity in Divine songs and meditacions / Bronwen Price
  • The Collins legacy: representations by scholars and editors since 1653 / Robert C. Evans
  • Afterword / Elaine Hobby
  • Appendix A: "An dearest" volume: Richard Bishop's Divine songs and meditacions / W. Scott Howard
  • Appendix B: "Another song. The winter of my infancy."