English women, religion, and textual production, 1500-1625 [electronic resource] / edited by Micheline White. - Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011. - vi, 252 p. : ill., port. - Women and gender in the early modern world . - Women and gender in the early modern world. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : women, religious communities, prose genres, and textual production / Micheline White -- Living stones : Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation / Patricia Phillippy -- Theise dearest offrings of my heart : the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes / Mary Trull -- Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage / Susannah Brietz Monta -- Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare : Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations and the restoration of England franciscanism / Jaime Goodrich -- Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare / Julie Crawford -- Prospecting for common ground in devotion : Queen Katherine Parr's personal prayerbook / Janel Mueller -- "Halff a scrypture woman" : heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill / Susan M. Felch -- Authority, scripture, and typography in Lady Grace Mildmay's manuscript meditations / Kate Narveson -- Lady Margaret Beaufort's translations as mirrors as practical piety / Brenda M. Hosington -- "Nether bitterly nor brablingly" : Lady Anne Cooke Bacon's translation of Bishop Jewel's Apologia ecclesiae anglicanae / Patricia Demers.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781409406525 (electronic bk.)




English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--England--16th century.
Women and literature--History--England--17th century.
Religion and literature--History--England--16th century.
Religion and literature--History--England--17th century.
Women and religion--History--England--16th century.
Women and religion--History--England--17th century.
Religion in literature.


Electronic books.

PR113 / .E54 2011

809/.89287