附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-285) and index.
Women's household circles as a gendered reading formation: Whitney, Tyler, and Lanyer -- Activist entries in writing: Lady Elizabeth Hoby / Russell and the other Cooke sisters -- Authorial identity for a second-generation Protestant aristocrat: The Countess of Pembroke -- Catholic squirearchy and women's writing: the Countesses of Oxford and Arundel and Elizabeth Weston -- Parlor games and male self-imaging as government: Jonson, Bulstrode and Ladies Southwell and Wroth -- Factional identities and writers' energies: Wroth, the Countess of Bedofred, and Donne -- Popery and politics: Lady Falkland's return to writing.