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Contents: Introduction; Bibliography; Part I Anne Locke Prowse: 'In a mirrour clere': Protestantism and politics in Anne Lok's Miserere Mei Deus, Rosalind Smith; Anne Lock's Meditation: invention versus dilation and the founding of Puritan poetics, Roland Greene; 'An Englishe box': Calvinism and commodities in Anne Lok's A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner, Christopher Warley; Curing the soul: Anne Lock's authorial medicine, Susan M. Felch. Part II Isabella Whitney: Oppositional ideologies of gender in Isabella Whitney's Copy of a Letter, Paul A. Marquis; Literary property and the single woman in Isabella Whitney's A Sweet Nosgay, Laurie Ellinghausen; The maids lawful liberty: service, the household, and 'Mother B' in Isabella Whitney's A Sweet Nosgay, Patricia Phillippy; Isabella Whitney and the female legacy, Wendy Wall. Part III Aemilia Lanyer: Lanyer and Early Modern Patriarchy: 'Let us have our libertie againe': Amelia Lanier's 17th-century feminist voice, Lynette McGrath; Aemilia Lanyer and the invention of white womanhood, Barbara Bowen; Woman's desire for man in Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Theresa M. DiPasquale; 'To undoe the booke': Cornelius Agrippa, Aemilia Lanyer and the subversion of Pauline authority, Esther Gilman Richey; A woman with St Peter's keys? Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) and the priestly gifts of women, Micheline White; The gendering of genre: literary history and the canon, Marshall Grossman. Lanyer and the Patronage System: Writing in service: sexual politics and class position in the poetry of Aemilia Lanyer and Ben Jonson, Anne Baynes Coiro; Breaking 'the rule of the cortezia': Aemilia Lanyer's dedications to Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Lisa Schnell; An arbor of one's own? Aemilia Lanyer and the early modern garden, Christine Coch; To play the man: Aemilia Lanyer and the acquisition of patronage, Pamela Joseph Benson. Lanyer and Poetic Authority: Prophecy and gendered mourning in Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Elizabeth M.A. Hodgson; Remembering Orpheus in the poems of Aemilia Lanyer, Kari Boyd McBride. Index.