Kim Coles is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland.

Review of the hardback: 'Coles's innovative arguments are forcefully articulated and developed with attention to a variety of forms of evidence ranging from close reading of passages to analysis of publication histories. This book represents an important addition to a by now well-established scholarly conversation concerning early modern women's writings.' Nancy Bradley Warren, The Journal of British Studies

• Introduction: making sects: women as reformers, writers and subjects in Reformation England; 1. The death of the author (and the appropriation of her text): the case of Anne Askew's Examinations; 2. Representing the faith of a nation: transitional spirituality in the works of Katherine Parr; 3. '[A] pen to paynt': Mary Sidney Herbert and the problems of a Protestant poetics; 4. A New Jerusalem: Anne Lok's 'Meditation' and the lyric voice; 5. 'A Womans writing of diuinest things': Aemilia Lanyer's passion for a professional poetic vocation; Afterword.

Kim Coles is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland.

Review of the hardback: 'Coles's innovative arguments are forcefully articulated and developed with attention to a variety of forms of evidence ranging from close reading of passages to analysis of publication histories. This book represents an important addition to a by now well-established scholarly conversation concerning early modern women's writings.' Nancy Bradley Warren, The Journal of British Studies

• Introduction: making sects: women as reformers, writers and subjects in Reformation England; 1. The death of the author (and the appropriation of her text): the case of Anne Askew's Examinations; 2. Representing the faith of a nation: transitional spirituality in the works of Katherine Parr; 3. '[A] pen to paynt': Mary Sidney Herbert and the problems of a Protestant poetics; 4. A New Jerusalem: Anne Lok's 'Meditation' and the lyric voice; 5. 'A Womans writing of diuinest things': Aemilia Lanyer's passion for a professional poetic vocation; Afterword.

Kim Coles is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland.

Review of the hardback: 'Coles's innovative arguments are forcefully articulated and developed with attention to a variety of forms of evidence ranging from close reading of passages to analysis of publication histories. This book represents an important addition to a by now well-established scholarly conversation concerning early modern women's writings.' Nancy Bradley Warren, The Journal of British Studies

• Introduction: making sects: women as reformers, writers and subjects in Reformation England; 1. The death of the author (and the appropriation of her text): the case of Anne Askew's Examinations; 2. Representing the faith of a nation: transitional spirituality in the works of Katherine Parr; 3. '[A] pen to paynt': Mary Sidney Herbert and the problems of a Protestant poetics; 4. A New Jerusalem: Anne Lok's 'Meditation' and the lyric voice; 5. 'A Womans writing of diuinest things': Aemilia Lanyer's passion for a professional poetic vocation; Afterword.