Foray into Archival Research
For my Field Report for the course I am taking on literary theory and the archives, I submitted a request form online to view the...
Early Modern Women Writers and the Literary Mirror
Two patterns which I have noticed in reading Women Poets of the English Civil War and the poetry of Lanyer, Wroth, and Evelyn converge in...
Betwixt Two Ferns: Cavendish and Hobbes
As the editors of Women Poets of the English Civil War writing in their essay in Editing Early Modern would put it, the poetry of...
Female Authorial Shame
In my focus on studying “long eighteenth-century” women writers, especially my favorite, Frances Burney, but also Haywood, Behn, etc., and also later writers such as...
Crystal Coldness in Wroth’s P. to A.
The third from the final of Wroth’s crown of sonnets, F4, in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus contains imagery of, well, images—specifically the “lov’d Image of thy...