To Sleep, Perchance to Dream, with Lady Mary Wroth
Lady Mary Wroth’s sonnet sequence, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, begins in the dark and by the end of this first section we are studying, P36 (within...
Footnoting Lanyer’s Salve Deus
First I must get out of the way how pointless I found 80-90 percent of the footnotes in Salve Dues. The ones that provided detail...
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...
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...