Further Reading
- Beilin, Elaine V., Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987, 346 p. (Examines the Renaissance tradition of women's writing and the cautious conservatism that characterized the attitudes of many women toward literary endeavors.)
- Hageman, Elizabeth H., "Recent Studies in Women Writers of the English Seventeenth Century (1604-1674)," English Literary Renaissance 18, No. 1 (Winter 1988): 138-67. (Provides citations and descriptions of selected editions of works by seventeenth-century women writers, as well as critical studies and relevant historical studies.)
- Haselkorn, Anne M., and Betty S. Travitsky, eds., The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1990, 363 p. (Presents selected critical essays on topics such as "The Outspoken Woman," "Woman on the Renaissance Stage," "The Woman Ruler," "The Private Woman," and "Women and the Sidneian Tradition.")
- Lamb, Mary Ellen, Gender and Authorship in the Sidney Circle. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990, 297 p. (Critical study including discussion of Mary Wroth, focusing on writings by the male and female members of the Sidney family.)
- Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, Writing Women in Jacobean England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993, 431 p. (Examines the female experience of Jacobean culture through analysis of texts by nine women writers.)
- MacCarthy, B.G., Women Writers: Their Contribution to the English Novel, 1621-1744. Dublin: Cork University Press, 1945, 288 p. (Discusses societal influences on women's literary production and examines the contributions of women to various forms including pastoral romance, biography, and satire.)
- Maclean, Ian, The Renaissance Notion of Woman: A Study in the Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980, 119 p. (Examines Renaissance texts to understand attitudes towards women during the seventeenth century.)
- Mason, Mary G., "The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers," in Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, edited by James Olney, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980, 360 p. (Includes discussion of the autobiographical works of Margaret Cavendish, Margery Kempe, and Anne Bradstreet.)
- Mermin, Dorothy, "Women Becoming Poets: Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Anne Finch," in ELH 57, No. 2 (Summer 1990): 335-55. (Examines Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, and Anne Finch as seventeenth-century women poets who achieved fame and success during their lifetimes.)
- Nadelhaft, Jerome, "The Englishwoman's Sexual Civil War: Feminist Attitudes Towards Men, Women, and Marriage, 1650-1740," Journal of the History of Ideas XLIII, No. 4 (October-December 1982): 555-79. (Examines how seventeenth-century women writers developed a powerful criticism of men's attitudes towards women.)
- Schofield, Mary Anne and Cecilia Macheski, eds., Fetter'd or Free?: British Women Novelists, 1670-1815. Athens: Ohio University, 1986, 441 p. (Presents discussion of women novelists by selected critics, organized in sections such as "Gender and Genre," "Feminine Iconography," and "The Novel and Beyond: Critical Assessments.")
- Singley, Carol J. and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, eds., Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993, 400 p. (Presents selected essays informed by the theory that reading and writing are not gender-free acts, focusing on women's ambivalence toward language.)
- Wilson, Katharina M. and Frank J. Warnke, eds., Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1989, 545 p. (Presents an international overview of important seventeenth-century women writers.)
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