Table of Contents:
  • Women's household circles as a gendered reading formation: Whitney, Tyler, and Lanyer
  • Activist entries in writing: Lady Elizabeth Hoby / Russell and the other Cooke sisters
  • Authorial identity for a second-generation Protestant aristocrat: The Countess of Pembroke
  • Catholic squirearchy and women's writing: the Countesses of Oxford and Arundel and Elizabeth Weston
  • Parlor games and male self-imaging as government: Jonson, Bulstrode and Ladies Southwell and Wroth
  • Factional identities and writers' energies: Wroth, the Countess of Bedofred, and Donne
  • Popery and politics: Lady Falkland's return to writing.