Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this new volume examines the diversity of early women's writing (from verse and songs to household records and recipes), offering a new paradigm for understanding women's shaping roles in the literary, religious, and political movements of the sixteenth century.

Caroline Bicks, Associate Professor of English, Boston College, USA Heidi Brayman Hackel, Associate Professor of English, University of California at Riverside, USA Pamela Allen Brown, Associate Professor of English, University of Connecticut, Stamford, USA Christine Coch, Associate Professor of English, The College of the Holy Cross, USA A.E.B. Coldiron Associate Professor of English, Florida State University, USA Julie Crawford, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA Sujata Iyengar, Associate Professor of English, University of Georgia, USA Chris Laoutaris, British Academy Post Doctoral Fellow, University College London, UK Lynne Magnusson, Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada Catherine Richardson, Director of the Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent, UK Carolyn Sale, Assistant Professor of English, University of Alberta, Canada Edith Snook, Associate Professor of English, University of New Brunswick, Canada Jennifer Summit, Professor and Chair in the Department of English, Stanford University, USA Ema Vyroubalová, Doctoral Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, USA Nancy Bradley Warren, Professor of English and Courtesy Professor of Religion, Florida State University, USA Marion Wynne-Davies, Chair of English Literature, University of Surrey, UK