The Writings of an English Sappho (Volume 14) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

In this weighty edition of Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell’s works, based on extensive archival research, Patricia Phillippy brings together all known writings by her: letters, poems in English, Latin, and Greek, documents describing and planning christenings, weddings, and funerals, monumental inscriptions, entertainments, petitions, and Russell’s will. This ambitious and timely collection puts into practice recent critical arguments about the nature of women’s writings and the importance of occasional verse, familial poetry, letters, and petitions as characteristically women’s work. This collection also situates Russell, a woman, squarely and influentially in the humanist tradition, and explores her important place in English letters. This edition moves the field of early modern women’s studies into new territory, with its treatment of monumental verse as an integral part of Russell’s oeuvre. —Jane Donawerth Professor of English and affiliate faculty in women’s studies University of Maryland Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I—LADY HOBY (1566–1573) Letters 1–3 Poems To the Memory of the Shade of Sir Thomas Hoby Epitaph on the Death of Thomas Noke Verses from Giardino cosmografico coltivato Documents The Funeral of Sir Thomas Hoby A Bill of Transportation Charges Queen Elizabeth I to Elizabeth Hoby Geoffrey Fenton’s Dedication to Lady Hoby from Acts of Conference in Religion Geoffrey Fenton’s Dedication to Lady Hoby from Monophylo Monuments Sir Philip Hoby and Sir Thomas Hoby (The Knights’ Tomb) Elizabeth and Anne Hoby PART II—LADY RUSSELL (1574–1593) Letters 4–13 Poems Funeral Dirges on the Death of Katherine Cooke Killigrew Documents The Christening of Elizabeth (Bess) Russell The Funeral of Lord John Russell The Bisham Entertainment for Queen Elizabeth I Monuments Sir Anthony Cooke and Anne Fitzwilliam Cooke Lord John Russell PART III—A COURTIER AND PARLIAMENT WOMAN (1594–1600) Letters 14–47 Poems Eulogy for Elizabeth Brooke Cecil, to Robert Cecil Verses from Horace, for Robert Cecil Eulogy for Thomas Egerton the Younger, to Thomas Egerton Documents Thomas Lodge’s Dedication to Lady Russell from A Margarite of America Petition to the Privy Council Concerning the Blackfriars Theater Edward Vaughan’s Dedication to Lady Elizabeth Russell, Dowager, from An Introduction into the Books of the Prophets and Apostles The Wedding of Anne (Nan) Russell Monument Bess Russell PART IV—ELIZABETH RUSSELL, DOWAGER (1601–1609) Letters 48–64 Documents A Way of Reconciliation of a Good and Learned Man Star Chamber Case: Lady Elizabeth Russell v. The Earl of Nottingham Robert Stafford’s Dedication to Lady Elizabeth Russell, Dowager, from A Geographical and Anthological Description of all the Empires and Kingdoms The Last Will and Testament of Elizabeth Russell Monument Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell Glossary of Persons Calendar of Sources Bibliography Index Includes Russell's translation of: Diallacticon viri boni et literati, de veritate, natura, atque substantia corporis et sanguinis Christi in Eucharistia.