Introduction / Paul Salzman -- Recovering early-modern women's writing -- Anne Halkett and the writing of Civil War conspiracy --The Coterie writing of the Astons and the Thimelbys -- Redemptive advice: Dorothy Leigh's 'The Mothers Blessing' -- 'Lindamira's Complaint' -- East meets west in Wroth's 'Urania' -- The travel journals of Celia Fiennes -- Disciplining the imperial mother: Anne Bradstreet's 'A Dialogue Between Old England and New' -- The lives of Lady Anne Halkett -- Body and politics in Aphra Behn's 'Love Letters' -- Katherine Philips's love elegies and their readers -- The sources of female greatness in Katherine Philips's 'Pompey' -- Margaret Cavendish's response to Hooke's 'Micrographia' -- The restoration of royalist form in Margaret Cavendish's 'Sociable Letters' -- Margaret Cavendish and queer literary subjectivity -- Eliza Haywood, writing (and) pornography in 1742
Notes
"A Meridian book"
"... a special book issue of Meridian, the La Trobe University English review, volume 18, number 1"--T.p. verso