Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700 : Volume 1: Early Tudor Women Writers

This volume includes leading scholarship on five writers active in the first half of the sixteenth century: Margaret More Roper, Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Mildred Cooke Cecil and Anne Cooke Bacon. The essays represent a range of theoretical approaches and provide valuable insights into the religious, social, economic and political contexts essential for understanding these writers' texts. Scholars examine the significance of Margaret More Roper's translations and letters in the contexts of humanism, family relationships and changing cultural forces; the contributions of Katherine Parr and Anne Askew to Reformation discourses and debates; and the material presence of Mildred Cooke Cecil and Anne Cooke Bacon in the intellectual, religious and political life of their time. The introduction surveys the development of the field as an interdisciplinary project involving literature, history, classics, religion and cultural studies. The Opportunities Offered By The Explosion Of Knowledge About Early Modern Women Writers In The Past Two Decades Also Pose A Sometimes Formidable Challenge. For Some Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-century English Women Writers-mary Sidney, Mary Wroth, Aemilia Lanyer, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Clifford, And Elizabeth Cary-the Critical Literature Has Already Become Voluminous. For Others, Such As Anne Lock And Lucy Hutchinson, Recent Editions Of Exceptional Work Provide Good Reason To Foreground Them As Likely Figures Soon To Assume Prominence In The Field. Drawing Together Essays And Articles From A Disparate Group Of Scholarly Journals And Collective Volumes, Some Now Difficult To Obtain, This Series Of Seven Volumes Offers A Selection From The Best Work In This Field. Presented In A Compact, Easy-to-access Format, This Series Will Be Especially Useful For Scholars New To The Area As Well As For Experienced Scholars Who May Have Overlooked An Important Essay Published In A Journal With Limited Circulation. Each Of The Seven Volumes Listed Below Has Been Edited By A Recognized Authority In The Area. Volume Editors Provide A Substantial Introduction Surveying The Current State Of The Field; A Brief Biographical Account Of The Life Of Each Writer Covered In The Volume; And A Select Bibliography For Additional Reading. In Order To Provide The Most Coverage Without Losing Depth, Some Volumes Cover Multiple Early Modern Authors. Every Volume Is Published In Hardcover And Printed On Acid-free Paper Suitable For Library Collections.--publisher's Description From Half-title Verso. V. 1. Early Tudor Women Writers / Edited By Elaine V. Beilin -- V. 2. Mary Sidney, Countess Of Pembroke / Edited By Margaret P. Hannay -- V. 3. Anne Lock, Isabella Whitney And Aemilia Lanyer / Edited By Micheline White -- V. 4. Mary Wroth / Edited By Clare R. Kinney -- V. 5. Anne Clifford And Lucy Hutchinson / Edited By Mihoko Suzuki -- V. 6. Elizabeth Cary / Edited By Karen Raber -- V. 7. Margaret Cavendish / Edited By Sara H. Mendelson. Series Editor, Mary Ellen Lamb. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Contents Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction Bibliography Chronology Part I Margaret More Roper Margaret Roper’s English Version of Erasmus’ Precatio Dominica and the Apprenticeship Behind Early Tudor Translation 2 Margaret More Roper’s Translation of Erasmus’ Precatio Dominica 3 The Name and the Signature of the Author of Margaret Roper’s Letter to Alice Alington 4 Margaret Roper, the Humanist Political Project, and the Problem of Agency Part II Katherine Parr 5 A Tudor Queen Finds Voice: Katherine Parr’s Lamentation of a Sinner 6 Devotion as Difference: Intertextuality in Queen Katherine Parr’s Prayers or Meditations (1545) 7 Complications of Intertextuality: John Fisher, Katherine Parr, and ‘The Book of the Crucifix’ Queen Kateryn Parr’s Lamentacion of a Synner and the Formularies 9 ‘A supernal liuely fayth’: Katherine Parr and the Authoring of Devotion 10 Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth, and the Crucified Christ Part III Anne Askew 11 Anne Askew’s Dialogue with Authority 12 ‘Except that they had offended the Lawe’: Gender and Jurisprudence in The Examinations ofAnne Askew 13 Anne Askewe, John Bale, and Protestant History 14 Translating (Anne) Askew: The Textual Remains of a Sixteenth-Century Heretic and Saint* 15 The Plural Voices of Anne Askew 16 The Inheritance of Anne Askew, English Protestant Martyr 17 Stepping into the Pulpit? Women’s Preaching in The Book of Margery Kempe and The Examinations of Anne Askew Response to Genelle Gertz-Robinson 18 The Cooke Sisters: Attitudes toward Learned Women in the Renaissance 19 The Library of Mildred Cooke Cecil, Lady Burghley 20 Mildred Cecil, Lady Burleigh: Poetry, Politics and Protestantism Index