Sarah C. E. Ross is Senior Lecturer in English at the Victoria University of Wellington. She is the editor of Katherine Austen's Book M: British Library, Additional Manuscript 4454 (ACMRS, 2011), and the author of numerous articles and chapters on early modern women's writing and manuscript culture.

As she does throughout this rich, detailed and important book, Ross here helps open up pathways for future study.

• Introduction: She thinks not on the state? ; 1. 'The right vse of Poesie': Elizabeth Melville's religious verse and Scottish Presbyterian politics ; 2. 'Thou art the nursing father of all pietye': sociality, religion, and politics in Anne Southwell's verse ; 3. 'When that shee heard the drums and cannon play': Jane Cavendish and occasional verse ; 4. 'This kingdoms loss': Hester Pulter's elegies and emblems ; 5. 'I see our nere, to be reentered paradice': Lucy Hutchinson's 'Elegies' and Order and Disorder ; Conclusions

Sarah C. E. Ross is Senior Lecturer in English at the Victoria University of Wellington. She is the editor of Katherine Austen's Book M: British Library, Additional Manuscript 4454 (ACMRS, 2011), and the author of numerous articles and chapters on early modern women's writing and manuscript culture.

As she does throughout this rich, detailed and important book, Ross here helps open up pathways for future study.

• Introduction: She thinks not on the state? ; 1. 'The right vse of Poesie': Elizabeth Melville's religious verse and Scottish Presbyterian politics ; 2. 'Thou art the nursing father of all pietye': sociality, religion, and politics in Anne Southwell's verse ; 3. 'When that shee heard the drums and cannon play': Jane Cavendish and occasional verse ; 4. 'This kingdoms loss': Hester Pulter's elegies and emblems ; 5. 'I see our nere, to be reentered paradice': Lucy Hutchinson's 'Elegies' and Order and Disorder ; Conclusions

Sarah C. E. Ross is Senior Lecturer in English at the Victoria University of Wellington. She is the editor of Katherine Austen's Book M: British Library, Additional Manuscript 4454 (ACMRS, 2011), and the author of numerous articles and chapters on early modern women's writing and manuscript culture.

As she does throughout this rich, detailed and important book, Ross here helps open up pathways for future study.

• Introduction: She thinks not on the state? ; 1. 'The right vse of Poesie': Elizabeth Melville's religious verse and Scottish Presbyterian politics ; 2. 'Thou art the nursing father of all pietye': sociality, religion, and politics in Anne Southwell's verse ; 3. 'When that shee heard the drums and cannon play': Jane Cavendish and occasional verse ; 4. 'This kingdoms loss': Hester Pulter's elegies and emblems ; 5. 'I see our nere, to be reentered paradice': Lucy Hutchinson's 'Elegies' and Order and Disorder ; Conclusions