ELIZABETH CLARKE is Reader in English at Warwick University, UK, where she leads the Perdita Project investigating women's manuscript writing in the Early Modern period.

'...this is a book of immense value for literary and religious historians alike, subtle in analysis and rigorous in research.' - Sarah Apetrei, Keble College Oxford, Journal of Ecclesiastical History

• Acknowledgements Introduction Royal Brides and National Identity 1603-1625 The Mysticall Marriage , Martyrology and Arminianism 1625-1640 Emblematic Marriage at the 1630s Court From Annotations to Commentary: New Spectacles on the Song of Songs The Seventeenth-Century Woman Writer and the Bride Politics, Metaphor and the Song of Songs in the 1670s Epilogue: Benjamin Keach Rewriting the Bride Bibliography Index

ELIZABETH CLARKE is Reader in English at Warwick University, UK, where she leads the Perdita Project investigating women's manuscript writing in the Early Modern period.

'...this is a book of immense value for literary and religious historians alike, subtle in analysis and rigorous in research.' - Sarah Apetrei, Keble College Oxford, Journal of Ecclesiastical History

• Acknowledgements Introduction Royal Brides and National Identity 1603-1625 The Mysticall Marriage , Martyrology and Arminianism 1625-1640 Emblematic Marriage at the 1630s Court From Annotations to Commentary: New Spectacles on the Song of Songs The Seventeenth-Century Woman Writer and the Bride Politics, Metaphor and the Song of Songs in the 1670s Epilogue: Benjamin Keach Rewriting the Bride Bibliography Index

ELIZABETH CLARKE is Reader in English at Warwick University, UK, where she leads the Perdita Project investigating women's manuscript writing in the Early Modern period.

'...this is a book of immense value for literary and religious historians alike, subtle in analysis and rigorous in research.' - Sarah Apetrei, Keble College Oxford, Journal of Ecclesiastical History

• Acknowledgements Introduction Royal Brides and National Identity 1603-1625 The Mysticall Marriage , Martyrology and Arminianism 1625-1640 Emblematic Marriage at the 1630s Court From Annotations to Commentary: New Spectacles on the Song of Songs The Seventeenth-Century Woman Writer and the Bride Politics, Metaphor and the Song of Songs in the 1670s Epilogue: Benjamin Keach Rewriting the Bride Bibliography Index