Lanyer’s Salve Deus, Mirror to Upper-Class Women
In her 10 dedicatory poems to Salve Deus—first “to the Queens most Excellent Majestie,” then as follows (her spelling): the Lady Elizabeths Grace; to all...
Dame Gertrude More Unbound
Upholding Susan Felch’s assertions in “The Backward Gaze” (EEMW 21-39) that (1) early modern women writers were first and foremost religious and (2) the males...
Judging Digital Editions and Early Modern Women by their Covers
Because Editing Early Modern Women was published in 2016, in their essay “Editing Early Modern Women in the Digital Age,” Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith...
On Anthologizing Early Modern Women’s Poetry
On initial reading, it is easy to read Sarah Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann’s distillation of poetry by Hester Pulter, Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish,...
On The Backward Gaze
Susan Felch’s “The Backward Gaze,” puts forth a vision of editorial scholarship in which a text is “always a prism that refracts light” (21). Because...