This study explores why women in the English Renaissance wrote so few sonnet sequences, in comparison with the traditions of Continental women writers and of En

This volume examines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women’s writing by exploring women’s debts to and appropriations of different

This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both with major (S

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figur

This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing offers a range of approaches to a growing field. As a whole, the volume introduces