Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing

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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction - Early Modern Women's Material Texts: Production, Transmission and Reception Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith 1. Women and the Materials of Writing Helen Smith 2. Dispensing Quails, Mincemeat, Leaven: Katherine Parr's Patronage of the Paraphrases of Erasmus Patricia Pender 3. 'Le pouvoir de faire dire': Marginalia in Mary Queen of Scots' Book of Hours Rosalind Smith 4. Translation and Community in the Work of Elizabeth Cary Deborah Uman 5. The 'great Queen of Lightninge flashes': the Transmission of Female-voiced Burlesque Poetry in the Early Seventeenth Century Michelle O'Callaghan 6. 'Philo-Philippa' as Author-reader Kate Lilley 7. Late Seventeenth-century Women Writers and the Penny Post: Early Social Media Forms and Access to Celebrity Margaret J.M. Ezell 8. Henrietta's Version: Mary Wroth's Love's Victory in the Nineteenth Century Paul Salzman 9. 'One of the finest Poems of that nature I ever read': Quantitative Methodologies and the Reception of Early Modern Women's Writing Marie-Louise Coolahan Bibliography Index