Further Reading

Some anthologies of English women’s poetry of this period:

Alexander Dyce (ed), Specimens of British Poetesses (London: T. Rodd, 1827).

J.C. Squire (ed), A Book of Women’s Verse (Oxford: Clarendon, 1921).

Betty Travitsky (ed), The Paradise of Women: Writings by Englishwomen of the Renaissance (Westport, Conn: Greenwood, 1981).

Germaine Greer, Jeslyn Medoff, Melinda Sansone and Susan Hastings (eds), Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth Century Women’s Verse, (London: Virago, 1988)

Dale Spender and Janet Todd (eds), Anthology of British Women Writers, (London: Pandora, 1989).

Roger Lonsdale (ed), Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology, (Oxford: OUP‚ 1989).

 

Some recent critical and historical introductions:

Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar (eds), Shakespeare’s Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets (Bloomington and London: Indiana UP, 1979).

Elaine Showalter (ed), The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory (NY: Pantheon, 1985).

Margaret Homans, Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing (Chicago: Chicago UP, 1986).

Elaine V. Beilin, Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1987).

Jan Montefiore, Feminism and Poetry: Language, Experience, Identity in Women’s Writing (London and NY: Pandora, 1987).

Elaine Hobby, Virtue of Necessity: English Women’s Writing 1649–88, (London: Virago, 1988).

Janet Todd, Feminist Literary History: A Defence (Cambridge: Polity, 1988).

Janet Todd (ed), Dictionary of British Women Writers (London: Routledge, 1989).