The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558–1680

1. Introduction
Johanna Harris, Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

2. The Exemplary Anne Vaughan Lock
Susan M. Felch

3. The Countess of Pembroke and the Practice of Piety
Danielle Clarke

4. Imagining a National Church: Election and Education in the Works of Anne Cooke Bacon
Lynne Magnusson

5. Anne, Lady Southwell: Coteries and Culture
Elizabeth Clarke

6. Godly Patronage: Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford
Marion O’Connor

7. ‘An Ancient Mother in our Israel’: Mary, Lady Vere
Jacqueline Eales

8. ‘Give me thy hairt and I desyre no more’: The Song of Songs, Petrarchism and Elizabeth Melville’s Puritan Poetics
Sarah C. E. Ross

9. ‘But I thinke and beleeve’: Lady Brilliana Harley’s Puritanism in Epistolary Community
Johanna Harris

10. ‘Take unto ye words’: Elizabeth Isham’s ‘Booke of Rememberance’ and Puritan Cultural Forms
Erica Longfellow

11. Anne Bradstreet’s Poetry and Providence: Earth, Wind, and Fire
Susan Wiseman

12. Viscountess Ranelagh and the Authorisation of Women’s Knowledge in the Hartlib Circle
Ruth Connolly

13. Anna Trapnel’s Literary Geography
Diane Purkiss

14. Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible and Order and Disorder

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

15. Pregnant Dreams in Early Modern Europe: The Philadelphian Example
Nigel Smith

16. Afterword
David Norbrook

Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Medieval Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Social History