Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-century Britain

Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain offers a new account of women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland. Where previous studies have focused on the prominent printed writings of Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn, this book provides the first extended discussion of seventeenth-century women's political poetry in manuscript, offering detailed new readings ofElizabeth Melville, Anne Southwell, Jane Cavendish, Hester Pulter, and Lucy Hutchinson.