Carol Barash was formerly Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Carol Barash's English Women's Poetry 1649-1714 continues the important work of recovering the sources, contexts, and traditions within which early modern English women wrote.

• Introduction; ; PART 1: ORIGINS ; English and Continental Origins: Queens, Heroes, Prophets; ; Women's Community and the Exiled King: Katherine Philip's Society of Friendship; ; Eros, Myth, and Monarchy in Aphra Behn; ; PART II: ELABORATIONS ; The Female Monarch and the Woman Poet: Mary of Modena, Anne Killigrew and Jane Barker; ; Queen Anne among the Poets; ; Anne Finch: Gender, Politics, and Myths of the Private Self; ; CONCLUSION; ; Appendices ; Order of poems in Katherine Philip's manuscripts and Poems; ; Lucasia poems in approximate order of events described; ; Anne Killigrew's paintings; ; John Chatwin's 'To the Pious Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew. A Pindarique'. ; Order of poems in Jane Barker, Political recreations (1688); ; Order of poems in Magdalen College MS. 343, Barker's 'Poems on Several Occasions, in 3 Parts'; ; 'An Elegy on the Death of K. James'. ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Carol Barash was formerly Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Carol Barash's English Women's Poetry 1649-1714 continues the important work of recovering the sources, contexts, and traditions within which early modern English women wrote.

• Introduction; ; PART 1: ORIGINS ; English and Continental Origins: Queens, Heroes, Prophets; ; Women's Community and the Exiled King: Katherine Philip's Society of Friendship; ; Eros, Myth, and Monarchy in Aphra Behn; ; PART II: ELABORATIONS ; The Female Monarch and the Woman Poet: Mary of Modena, Anne Killigrew and Jane Barker; ; Queen Anne among the Poets; ; Anne Finch: Gender, Politics, and Myths of the Private Self; ; CONCLUSION; ; Appendices ; Order of poems in Katherine Philip's manuscripts and Poems; ; Lucasia poems in approximate order of events described; ; Anne Killigrew's paintings; ; John Chatwin's 'To the Pious Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew. A Pindarique'. ; Order of poems in Jane Barker, Political recreations (1688); ; Order of poems in Magdalen College MS. 343, Barker's 'Poems on Several Occasions, in 3 Parts'; ; 'An Elegy on the Death of K. James'. ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

Carol Barash was formerly Assistant Professor of English, Rutgers University, New Jersey.

Carol Barash's English Women's Poetry 1649-1714 continues the important work of recovering the sources, contexts, and traditions within which early modern English women wrote.

• Introduction; ; PART 1: ORIGINS ; English and Continental Origins: Queens, Heroes, Prophets; ; Women's Community and the Exiled King: Katherine Philip's Society of Friendship; ; Eros, Myth, and Monarchy in Aphra Behn; ; PART II: ELABORATIONS ; The Female Monarch and the Woman Poet: Mary of Modena, Anne Killigrew and Jane Barker; ; Queen Anne among the Poets; ; Anne Finch: Gender, Politics, and Myths of the Private Self; ; CONCLUSION; ; Appendices ; Order of poems in Katherine Philip's manuscripts and Poems; ; Lucasia poems in approximate order of events described; ; Anne Killigrew's paintings; ; John Chatwin's 'To the Pious Memory of Mrs Anne Killigrew. A Pindarique'. ; Order of poems in Jane Barker, Political recreations (1688); ; Order of poems in Magdalen College MS. 343, Barker's 'Poems on Several Occasions, in 3 Parts'; ; 'An Elegy on the Death of K. James'. ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index