Penelope Anderson is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her publications include writings on women’s friendship in /Literature Compass/ and in /Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700/ (Ashgate, 2011).

Smart, thoughtful, and filled with myriad insights into how complex and contradictory allegiances can be promoted and sabotaged at one and the same moment.

• Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; Introduction: Friendship, Gender, Politics; Part I: Friendship and Betrayal; 1. Indemnity for Enemies, Oblivion for Friends: Changing Political Allegiances in the English Civil Wars; 2. "Obligation here is injury": Exemplary Friendship in Katherine Philips’s Coterie; 3. The Garden of Epicurus and the Garden of Eden: Friendship’s Counsel in De rerum natura and Order and Disorder; Part II: The Rewritten Legacy; 4. "Women, like princes, find no real friends": The Manuscript Tradition and Katherine Philips’s Reputation; 5. Honoring Friendship’s Shadows: Marriage and Political Reputation in Lucy Hutchinson’s Writings; 6. Covert Politics and Separatist Women’s Friendship: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell; Bibliography; Index.

Penelope Anderson is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her publications include writings on women’s friendship in /Literature Compass/ and in /Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700/ (Ashgate, 2011).

Smart, thoughtful, and filled with myriad insights into how complex and contradictory allegiances can be promoted and sabotaged at one and the same moment.

• Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; Introduction: Friendship, Gender, Politics; Part I: Friendship and Betrayal; 1. Indemnity for Enemies, Oblivion for Friends: Changing Political Allegiances in the English Civil Wars; 2. "Obligation here is injury": Exemplary Friendship in Katherine Philips’s Coterie; 3. The Garden of Epicurus and the Garden of Eden: Friendship’s Counsel in De rerum natura and Order and Disorder; Part II: The Rewritten Legacy; 4. "Women, like princes, find no real friends": The Manuscript Tradition and Katherine Philips’s Reputation; 5. Honoring Friendship’s Shadows: Marriage and Political Reputation in Lucy Hutchinson’s Writings; 6. Covert Politics and Separatist Women’s Friendship: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell; Bibliography; Index.

Penelope Anderson is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her publications include writings on women’s friendship in /Literature Compass/ and in /Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700/ (Ashgate, 2011).

Smart, thoughtful, and filled with myriad insights into how complex and contradictory allegiances can be promoted and sabotaged at one and the same moment.

• Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; Introduction: Friendship, Gender, Politics; Part I: Friendship and Betrayal; 1. Indemnity for Enemies, Oblivion for Friends: Changing Political Allegiances in the English Civil Wars; 2. "Obligation here is injury": Exemplary Friendship in Katherine Philips’s Coterie; 3. The Garden of Epicurus and the Garden of Eden: Friendship’s Counsel in De rerum natura and Order and Disorder; Part II: The Rewritten Legacy; 4. "Women, like princes, find no real friends": The Manuscript Tradition and Katherine Philips’s Reputation; 5. Honoring Friendship’s Shadows: Marriage and Political Reputation in Lucy Hutchinson’s Writings; 6. Covert Politics and Separatist Women’s Friendship: Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell; Bibliography; Index.