Women and literature in Britain, 1500-1700

Introduction / Helen Wilcox

Humanist education and the Renaissance concept of woman / Hilda L. Smith

Religion and the construction of femininity / Suzanne Trill

Advice for women from mothers and patriarchs / Valerie Wayne

Women reading, reading women / Jacqueline Pearson

Women/'women' and the stage / Ann Thompson

Feminine modes of knowing and scientific enquiry : Margaret Cavendish's poetry as case study / Bronwen Price

Renaissance concepts of the 'woman writer' / Margaret W. Ferguson

Courtly writing by women / Helen Hackett

Women's poetry in early modern Britain / Elizabeth H. Hageman

Women's writing and the self / Elspeth Graham

The possibilities of prose / Betty S. Travitsky

The first female dramatists / Ros Ballaster.