Recent scholarship has offered a veritable landslide of studies about early modern women, illuminating them as writers, thinkers, midwives, mothers, in convents

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The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in pub

Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was freque

Much has been written about women of the English Renaissance, but few examples of women's writing from that era have been readily available until now. This rema