Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers

Susanne Woods, provost and professor of English at Wheaton College, Massachusetts, founded the Brown University Women Writers Project. She has been professor of English and also served in academic administration at Brown University and Franklin and Marshall College. Her publications include Natural Emphasis: English Versification from Chaucer to Dryden (Huntington Lib., 1984) and Lanyer: A Renaissance Woman Poet (Oxford UP, 1999). With Elizabeth H. Hageman she is co-general editor of the Oxford University Press series Women Writers in English, 1350-1850, for which she edited The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer (1993). Margaret P. Hannay, professor of English literature at Siena College, has edited The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke with Noel J. Kinnamon and Michael G. Brennan (Clarendon, 1998). She is the author of Philip's Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (Oxford UP, 1990) and editor of Silent but for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators, and Writers of Religious Works (Kent State UP, 1985).

"This collection represents absolutely first-rate scholarship--it is at present the only study of its kind, and an indispensable guide to classroom instruction and individual research in the field." --Constance Jordan, author of Shakespeare's Monarchies: Ruler and Subject in the Romances "A boon to both novice and experienced teachers of early modern British literature."--Feminist Teacher