Women's Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both
new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women's …

Edmund Spenser's poetry remains an indispensable touchstone of English literary history.
Yet for modern readers his deliberate use of archaic language and his allegorical mode of …

Women and Books in Early Modern Ireland Over the past decade, pioneering work in an
Irish context means that we know much more about women writers. Yet we still know …

This book explores the unedited material contained in the Hawthornden manuscripts of
William Fowler, a Scottish poet attached to the court of Queen Anna of Denmark between …

It remains questionable whether we can actually speak of a Spenser circle at all. As Judith
Herz has observed, authors like Spenser and Sidney could be said to belong to multiple …

This year witnessed much of interest to YWES readers in the area of bibliography, textual
criticism, and reference works. This chapter also draws attention to selected items not …