Description: Women writers of the English renaissance

Main Author:	Walker, Kim.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Twayne Publishers, [1996]
Physical Description:	xv, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series:	Twayne's English authors series ; TEAS 521.
Subjects:	Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, -- Countess of, -- 1561-1621 -- Criticism and interpretation. Cary, Elizabeth, -- Lady, -- 1585 or 1586-1639 -- Criticism and interpretation. Wroth, Mary, -- Lady, -- approximately 1586-approximately 1640 -- Criticism and interpretation. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century. Renaissance -- England.

Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Wise virgins : authority and authorship -- "Busie in my clositt" : letters, diaries, and autobiographical writing -- Negotiating a place in "eruditions garden" -- "Some inspired stile" : Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke -- "This worke of grace" : Elizabeth Middleton, Alice Sutcliffe, Rachel Speght, and Aemelia Lanyer -- "By publike language grac't" : Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland -- "To beg their fees" : the emergence of the professional woman writer -- "This strang labourinth" : Lady Mary Wroth -- "The lasting lampe."
Physical Description:	xv, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	0805770178