Description: 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) Margaret Fell 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)

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