Write or be written : early modern women poets and cultural constraints / edited by Barbara Smith and Ursula Appelt.

SeriesWomen and gender in early modern England, 1500-1750
Women and gender in early modern England, 1500-1750. ^A517696
Contents Widow, prophet, and poet: lyrical self-figurations in Katherine Austen's 'Book M' (1664) / Pamela Hammons -- 'Public' and 'private' in Aphra Behn's miscellanies: women writers, print, and manuscript / Anne Russell -- 'Household affaires are the opium of the soul': Damaris Masham and the necessity of women's poetry / Margaret J.M. Ezell -- Mary Wroth's guilty 'secrett art': the poetics of jealousy in Pamphilia to amphilanthus / Clare R. Kinney -- 'An emblem of themselves, in plum or pear': poetry, the female body and the country house / Jacqueline Pearson -- 'So may I with the Psalmist truly say': early modern Englishwomen's psalm discourse / Margaret P. Hannay -- The plural voices of Anne Askew / Joan Pong Linton -- Mary Sidney and gendered strategies for the writing of poetry / Shannon Miller -- 'Subdu'd by you': states of friendship and friends of the state in Katherine Philips's poetry / Andrew Shifflett -- 'First fruits of a woman's wit': authorial self-construction of English Renaissance women poets / Helen Wilcox -- A rhetoric of innocence: the poetry of Katherine Philips, 'The matchless Orinda' / Bronwen Price -- 'Very like a fiction': some early biographies of Aphra Behn / Jeslyn Medoff.
General noteSeries statement from dust jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00048475
ISBN184014288X (alk. paper)

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