Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing

Patricia Pender is Associate Professor in English and Writing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Palgrave, 2012), co-editor, with Rosalind Smith, of Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (Palgrave, 2014) and editor of Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration (Palgrave, 2017)Rosalind Smith is Chair of English and Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the Australian National University. She is the author of Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence (Palgrave, 2005) and the co-editor of Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (Palgrave, 2014) and Early Modern Women’s Complaint: Gender, Form, and Politics (Palgrave, 2020). In 2008, Smith and Pender founded the Early Modern Women's Research Network (EMWRN) at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

• Genres: Prose.- Genres: Poetry.- Genres: Poetry.- Materialities: Manuscript.- Period: Jacobean.- Period: English Civil War and Interregnum.- Period: Restoration.- Transmission.- The Material Book: Materialities.- Period: Early Tudor (1526-1557).- International Contexts: National Traditions and Transnational Networks.- Period: Elizabethan (1558-1603).- Materialities: Print.- Theories: Position and Debates.- Sites of Production.- Period: Caroline.- Cultural Contexts.