Table of Contents

Introduction
I. Domestic Affairs
1. Margaret Lucas Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623--1673)
Richard Brathwait (1588?--1673)
2. Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton, countess of Bridgewater (1626--1663)
Ben Jonson (1572--1637)
3. Mary Sidney Herbert, countess of Pembroke (1561--1621)
Henry Vaughan (1622--1695)
4. Amelia Bassano Lanyer (1569--1645)
Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (1517--1547)
5. Elizabeth Stafford Howard, duchess of Norfolk (1497--1558)
Henry, Baron Stafford (1502--1563)
6. Rachel Wrothesley Vaughan Russell (1636--1723)
Henry King (1592--1669)
7. Jane Sharp (fl. 1641--1671)
John Sadler (fl. 1636)
8. Rachel Speght [Procter] (c. 1597--after 1621)
Richard Hyrde (d. 1528)
9. Elizabeth Talbot Grey, countess of Kent (1581--1651)
Hugh Platt (1552--c. 1611)
II. Religion
10. Sarah Chevers (fl. 1663) and Katherine Evans (d. 1692)
William Weston (1550--1615)
11. Anne Vaughan Lock [Dering, Prowse] (c. 1534--after 1590)
Henry Lock (1553?--1608?)
12. Elizabeth Melville Colville of Culross (fl. 1603--1630)
Thomas Sackville (1536--1608)
13. A Medley of Christian Religious Poetry:
Anne Collins (fl. 1653)
Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1613--1672)
Dame Gertrude More (1601?--1633)
Gertrude Aston Thimelby (c. 1617--1668)
Henry Colman (fl. 1640)
John Collop (1625--after 1676)
Henry Constable (1562--1613)
14. Jane Ward Lead (1624--1704)
John Milton (1608--1674)
15. The Jewish Question in Early Modern England:
Sara Ames Lopez (1550--after 1594)
Anne Lopez alias Pino de Britto (1579--1626)
Johanna and Ebenezer Cartwright (fl. 1648)
Menasseh Ben Israel (1604--1657)
MargaretFell Foxe (1614--1702)
George Herbert (1593--1633)
III. Political Life and Social Structures
16. Mary Tudor Brandon (1496--1533)
Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk (1473--1554)
17. Margaret Douglas [Stuart], countess of Lennox (1515--1578)
Thomas Howard (d. 1537)
18. Women's Political Petitions, 1649
John Taylor (1578--1653)
19. Margaret Tyler (fl. 1578)
Daniel Tuvil (fl. 1609)
20. Diana Primrose (fl. 1630)
William Shakespeare (1564--1616)
21. Anne Edgcumbe Dowriche (before 1560--after 1613)
Christopher Marlowe (1564--1593)
22. Mary Fage (fl. 1637)
Francis Lenton (fl. 1630--1640)
23. Eleanor Audley Davies [Douglas] (1590--1652)
A "Digger" Follower of Gerrard Winstanley (c. 1649)
24. Elizabeth Sawyer (d. 1621) and Henry Goodcole (1586--1641)
Thomas Dekker (c. 1572--1632), John Ford (1586--c. 1639) and William Rowley (d. 1626)
25. Mary White Rowlandson (c. 1635--after 1677)
Thomas Hariot (1560--1621), Michael Drayton (1563--1631), and Robert Hayman (1575--1629)
IV. Love and Sexuality
26. Mary Sidney Wroth (1587?--1653?)
Robert Sidney (1563--1626) and Philip Sidney (1554--1586)
27. Katherine Fowler Philips (1632--1664)
Richard Barnfield (b. 1574) and William Shakespeare (1564--1616)
28. Isabella Whitney (fl. 1566--1573)
Edmund Spenser (1552?--1599), John Donne (1572--1631), and Thomas Campion (1567--1620)
29. Mary Sidney Wroth (1587?--1653?)
Philip Sidney (1554--1586)
30. Mary Moders Carleton (d. 1673)
Thomas Whythorne (1528--1598)