Early modern women's manuscript writing: selected papers from the Trinity/Trent Colloquium

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Contents: Foreword Introduction 'Desiring women writing': female voices and courtly 'balets' in some early Tudor manuscript albums, Elizabeth Heale Katherine Parr, Princess Elizabeth and the crucified Christ, Jonathan Gibson Mildred Cecil, Lady Burleigh: poetry, politics and protestantism, Jane Stevenson Reading friends: women's participation in 'masculine' literary culture, Victoria E. Burke CaitlA-n Dubh's Keens: literary negotiations in early modern Ireland, Marie-Louise Coolahan Lady Anne Southwell's indictment of Adam, Erica Longfellow Reading bells and loose papers: reading and writing practices of the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and Paris, Heather Wolfe The notebooks of Rachael Fane: education for authorship?, Caroline Bowden 'And Trophes of his praises make': providence and poetry in Katherine Austen's Book M, 1664-1668, Sarah Ross The books, manuscripts and literary patronage of Mrs Anne Sadleir (1585-1670), Arnold Hunt Perfecting practice? Women, manuscript recipes and knowledge in early modern England, Sara Pennell 'Often to my Self I make my mone': early modern women's poetry from the Feilding Family, Alison Shell Index.