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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
Mediatrix examines the roles women played as patrons, dedicatees, and readers, as well as writers, in the English Renaissance, and the relationship between these literary activities and religious and political activism. Cover -- MEDIATRIX --...
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Mediatrix examines the roles women played as patrons, dedicatees, and readers, as well as writers, in the English Renaissance, and the relationship between these literary activities and religious and political activism. Cover -- MEDIATRIX -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Female Constancy and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia -- 2 How Margaret Hoby Read her De Mornay -- 3 "His Factor for our loves": The Countess of Bedford and John Donne -- 4 Wroth's Cabinets -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
