Contents
Introduction
Adjusting Our Lenses to Make Gender Visible
Women’s Last Wills and Testaments in Hull, England (c. 1450 - 1555)
The Conquest of the Ancients: The Gender of Imitation in Louise Labes Euvres and the "Escriz de divers poetes, a la louenge de Louiz Labe Lionnoize"
Crafting Un-Fortune: Rape, Romance, and Resistance in Hester Pulter's The Unfortunate Florinda
Inventing Early Modern Women
Fictionalizing Shakespeare’s Sisters: Mary Sidney Herbert
Margaret Cavendish, Then and Now
Teaching Dutch Women Through Historical Fiction
Rewriting History: Colonial Latin American Women in Historical Fiction
Storia and Storie: The Substantiated Historical Fiction of Sarah Dunant
The Fictional Queen Katherine Howard
Women as Subjects and Objects of Medicine in Edo Japan
Plautilla Nelli
Artemisia Gentileschi e il suo tempo
The Wives of the Stadtholders
Women of the Page
Enlightened Princesses
Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlighten
Sampled Lives
Power in Disguise
Tom Tyler and his Wife
The Siren of Heaven
Margaret Cavendish, Virginia Woolf...
Fashioning the Early Modern
Gender and Emotions
Women, Gender and Art in Asia
Transatlantic Obligations
María Vela y Cueto: Autobiography
Sanctified Subversives
The Lives of Girls and Women
Women, Food Exchange, and Governance
Virtuous Necessity
The Birth of a Queen
The Elizabethan Country House
Separation Scenes
Anna Trapnel’s Report and Plea
The Other Exchange
Mannock Strickland
Marguerite D’Auge, Renée Burlamacchi
Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld
A Corresponding Renaissance
Women Artists in Early Modern Italy
In the Courts of Religious Ladies
Roman Charity
Picturing Marie Leszczinska
Contributors