Replete with biographical introduction, discussions of sources and compositional methodology, this two volume work is the first to include all Mary Sidney Herbe

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, is the most important Elizabethan woman writer and patron outside the royal family. By astute use of the genres permi

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was renowned in her own time for her metrical translation of biblical Psalms, several original poems, translations fr

This book is about the relationship of food and food practices to discourses and depictions of domestic and political governance in early modern women’s writi

Viewing the poem as a social agent and product in women’s lives, the essays in this collection examine factors influencing the relationships between writers a