Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700 : Volume 5: Anne Clifford and Lucy Hutchinson (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Chronology; Part I Anne Clifford: Anne Clifford as Orlando: Virginia Woolf's feminist historiology and women's biography, Nicky Hallett; Re-writing patriarchy and patronage: Margaret Clifford, Anne Clifford, and Aemilia Lanyer, Barbara K. Lewalski; The agency of the split subject: Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of reading, Mary Ellen Lamb; Anne Clifford and the gendering of history, Mihoko Suzuki; Constructing an identity in prose, plaster, and paint: Lady Anne Clifford as writer and patron of the arts, Alice T. Friedman; The great picture of Lady Anne Clifford, Graham Parry; Marginal maternity: reading Lady Anne Clifford's A Mirror for Magistrates, Stephen Orgel; Early modern (aristocratic) women and textual property, Paul Salzman; Knowing her place: Anne Clifford and the politics of retreat, Susan Wiseman; Serial identity: history, gender and form in the diary writing of Anne Clifford, Megan Matchinske; Construction sites: the architecture of Anne Clifford's diaries, Anne M. Myers. Part II Lucy Hutchinson: 'The colonel's shadow': Lucy Hutchinson, women's writing and the Civil War, N.H. Keeble; Remembering a hero: Lucy Hutchinson's Memoirs of her husband, Derek Hirst; 'But a copie': textual authority and gender in editions of The Life of John Hutchinson, David Norbrook; Maternity, marriage, and contract: Lucy Hutchinson's response to patriarchal theory in Order and Disorder, Shannon Miller; Between atoms and the spirit: Lucy Hutchinson's translation of Lucretius, Reid Barbour; Lucy Hutchinson writing matter, Jonathan Goldberg; Lucy Hutchinson's Elegies and the situation of the republican woman writer (with text), David Norbrook; Polluted palaces: gender, sexuality, and property in Lucy Hutchinson's Elegies, Pamela Hammons; 'Paper frames': Lucy Hutchinson's Elegies and the 17th-century country house poem, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann; Lucy Hutchinson: a life of writing, Robert Mayer; Index.