Lanyer, Aemilia - Susanne Woods (essay date 2000)
Susanne Woods (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Woods, Susanne. “Anne Lock and Aemilia Lanyer: A Tradition of Protestant Women Speaking.” In Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, edited by Amy Boesky and Mary Thomas Crane, pp. 171-84. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Woods finds connections between the English author Anne Lock and Lanyer.]
Two of the most interesting early modern English women writers are Anne Vaughan Lock (c. 1534-c. 1590) and Aemilia Bassano Lanyer (1569-1645). Lock, a confidant of John Knox, published translations of Sermons of John Calvin, Upon the Songe Ezechias Made after He Had Been Sicke (1560) and (as Anne Prowse) of a treatise by the French Huguenot, Jean Taffin, Of the Markes of the Children of God (1590), each prefaced by a substantial dedication to a noblewoman and followed by original poems. Lanyer, daughter and wife...
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