Foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I
Women's Household Circles as a Gendered Reading Formation: Whitney, Tyler, and Lanyer
2
Activist Entries into Writing: Lady Elizabeth Hoby/Russell and the Other Cooke Sisters
3
Authorial Identity for a Second-Generation Protestant Aristocrat: The Countess of Pembroke
4
Catholic Squirearchy and Women's Writing: The Countesses of Oxford and Arundel and Elizabeth Weston
5
Parlor Games and Male Self-Imaging as Government: Jonson, Bulstrode, and Ladies Southwell and Worth
6
Factional Identities and Writers' Energies: Wroth, the Countess of Bedford, and Donne
7
Popery and Politics: Lady Falkland's Return to Writing
Epilogue: Theoretical Perspectives
Appendices
Notes
Works Cited or Consulted
Index