The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Foreword; N.H.Keeble Introduction; J.Harris & E.Scott-Baumann The Exemplary Anne Vaughan Lock; S.Felch The Countess of Pembroke and the Practice of Piety; D.Clarke Imagining a National Church: Election and Education in the Works of Anne Cooke Bacon; L.Magnusson Anne, Lady Southwell: Coteries and Culture; E.Clarke Godly Patronage: Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford; M.O'Connor 'An Ancient Mother in our Israel': Mary, Lady Vere; J.Eales 'Give me thy hairt and I desyre no more': The Song of Songs, Petrarchism and Elizabeth Melville's Puritan Poetics; S.C.E.Ross 'But I thinke and beleeve': Lady Brilliana Harley's Puritanism in Epistolary Community; J.Harris 'Take unto ye words': Elizabeth Isham's 'Booke of Rememberance' and Puritan Cultural Forms; E.Longfellow Anne Bradstreet's Poetry and Providence: Earth, Wind, and Fire; S.Wiseman Viscountess Ranelagh and the Authorisation of Women's Knowledge in the Hartlib Circle; R.Connoll Anna Trapnel's Literary Geography; D.Purkiss Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible and Order and Disorder; E.Scott-Baumann Pregnant Dreams in Early Modern Europe: The Philadelphian Example; N.Smith Afterword; D.Norbrook Bibliography Index