Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration (Early Modern Literature in History)

This book explores the collaborative practices – both literary and material – that women undertook in the production of early modern texts. It confronts two ongoing methodological dilemmas. How does conceiving women’s texts as collaborations between authors, readers, annotators, editors, printers, and patrons uphold or disrupt current understandings of authorship? And how does reconceiving such texts as collaborative illuminate some of the unresolved discontinuities and competing agendas in early modern women’s studies? From one perspective, viewing early modern women’s writing as collaborative seems to threaten the hard-won legitimacy of the authors we have already recovered; from another, developing our understanding of literary agency beyond capital “A” authorship opens the field to the surprising range of roles that women played in the history of early modern books. Instead of trying to simply shift, disaggregate or adjudicate between competing claims for male or female priority in the production of early modern texts, __Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration__ investigates the role that gender has played – and might continue to play – in understanding early modern collaboration and its consequences for women’s literary history. Acknowledgements 7 Contents 9 Notes on Contributors 11 List of Figures 14 List of Tables 16 Chapter 1 Introduction: Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration 17 Canonical Early Modern Literary Collaboration Under Pressure: A Tale of Two Jeffries 20 Taxonomies of Early Modern Women’s Collaboration 23 Bibliography 32 Part I Literary and Intertextual Co-labor 36 Chapter 2 Katherine Parr, Henry VIII, and Royal Literary Collaboration 37 Recovering Katherine Parr as the Translator of the Psalms or Prayers 40 Writing for and with Henry: Parr’s Translations of Fisher, Witzel, and Erasmus 42 Writing as Henry: Psalms or Prayers as a Form of Royal Ventriloquism 47 Bibliography 57 Chapter 3 Collaboration in the Parliamentary Speeches of Queen Elizabeth I 61 Bibliography 81 Chapter 4 Conflicted Collaboration in The Mothers Legacy 84 Bibliography 103 Chapter 5 Collaboration, Authorship, and Gender in the Paratexts Accompanying Translations by Susan Du Verger and Judith Man 107 Bibliography 129 Part II Collective Contexts and Material Co-production 134 Chapter 6 Literary Gifts: Performance and Collaboration in the ArundelLumley Family Manuscripts 135 Ioannes Radcliffus, John Radcliffe 138 Maria Arundell, Mary Howard (née Fitzalan), Duchess of Norfolk 141 Ioanna Lumleya, Jane (Lady) Lumley 144 Bibliography 156 Chapter 7 The Clerics and the Learned Lady: Intertextuality in the Religious Writings of Lady Jane Grey 159 Bibliography 181 Chapter 8 Paratextual Marginalia, Early Modern Women, and Collaboration 185 Bibliography 208 Chapter 9 “All Fell Not in Pharsalias Field”: Lucy Harington Russell and the Historical Epic 211 Bibliography 227 Chapter 10 “A Veray Patronesse”: Margaret Beaufort and the Early English Printers 229 Bibliography 251 Chapter 11 Afterword: “Her Book” and Early Modern Modes of Collaboration 254 Who Wrote What? 254 Whose Book Is It? 259 Bibliography 266 Bibliography 268 Index 291 Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction: Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration (Patricia Pender, Alexandra Day)....Pages 1-19 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Katherine Parr, Henry VIII, and Royal Literary Collaboration (Micheline White)....Pages 23-46 Collaboration in the Parliamentary Speeches of Queen Elizabeth I (Leah S. Marcus)....Pages 47-69 Conflicted Collaboration in The Mothers Legacy (Rebecca Stark-Gendrano)....Pages 71-93 Collaboration, Authorship, and Gender in the Paratexts Accompanying Translations by Susan Du Verger and Judith Man (Brenda M. Hosington)....Pages 95-121 Front Matter ....Pages 123-123 Literary Gifts: Performance and Collaboration in the Arundel/Lumley Family Manuscripts (Alexandra Day)....Pages 125-148 The Clerics and the Learned Lady: Intertextuality in the Religious Writings of Lady Jane Grey (Louise Horton)....Pages 149-174 Paratextual Marginalia, Early Modern Women, and Collaboration (Rosalind Smith)....Pages 175-200 “All Fell Not in Pharsalias Field”: Lucy Harington Russell and the Historical Epic (Julie Crawford)....Pages 201-218 “A Veray Patronesse”: Margaret Beaufort and the Early English Printers (Patricia Pender)....Pages 219-243 Afterword: “Her Book” and Early Modern Modes of Collaboration (Margaret J. M. Ezell)....Pages 245-258 Back Matter ....Pages 259-291 This book explores the collaborative practices - both literary and material - that women undertook in the production of early modern texts. It confronts two ongoing methodological dilemmas. How does conceiving women's texts as collaborations between authors, readers, annotators, editors, printers, and patrons uphold or disrupt current understandings of authorship? And how does reconceiving such texts as collaborative illuminate some of the unresolved discontinuities and competing agendas in early modern women's studies? From one perspective, viewing early modern women's writing as collaborative seems to threaten the hard-won legitimacy of the authors we have already recovered; from another, developing our understanding of literary agency beyond capital zAy authorship opens the field to the surprising range of roles that women played in the history of early modern books. Instead of trying to simply shift, disaggregate or adjudicate between competing claims for male or female priority in the production of early modern texts, Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women's Collaboration investigates the role that gender has played - and might continue to play - in understanding early modern collaboration and its consequences for women's literary history Introduction: Gender, Authorship, And Early Modern Women's Collaboration / Patricia Pender And Alexandra Day -- Katherine Parr, Henry Viii, And Royal Literary Collaboration / Micheline White -- Collaboration In The Parliamentary Speeches Of Queen Elizabeth I / Leah S. Marcus -- Conflicted Collaboration In The Mothers Legacy / Rebecca Stark-gendrano -- Collaboration, Authorship, And Gender In The Paratexts Accompanying Translations By Susan Du Verger And Judith Man / Brenda M. Hosington -- Literary Gifts: Performance And Collaboration In The Arundel/lumley Family Manuscripts / Alexandra Day -- The Clerics And The Learned Lady: Intertextuality In The Religious Writings Of Lady Jane Grey / Louise Horton -- Paratextual Marginalia, Early Modern Women, And Collaboration / Rosaline Smith -- All Fell Not In Pharsalias Field: Lucy Harington Russell And The Historical Epic / Julie Crawford -- A Veray Patroness: Margaret Beaufort And The Early English Printers / Patricia Pender -- Afterword: Her Book And Early Modern Modes Of Collaboration / Margaret J.m. Ezell. Patricia Pender, Editor. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 259-281) And Index. Annotation This text explores the collaborative practices - both literary and material - that women undertook in the production of early modern texts. It confronts two ongoing methodological dilemmas. How does conceiving women's texts as collaborations between authors, readers, annotators, editors, printers, and patrons uphold or disrupt current understandings of authorship? And how does reconceiving such texts as collaborative illuminate some of the unresolved discontinuities and competing agendas in early modern women's studies?