Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Texts
Introduction: Female Voices, Women Writers, Godly Coalitions
Female Voices
Women Writers
Godly Coalitions
Notes
Chapter 1 The Politics of the Female Voice
Notes
Chapter 2 Conscience and Desire: Domestic Politics: The Marriage Metaphor
Religious Politics: The Song of Songs
Notes
Chapter 3 Elizabeth Cary and the ''Publike-Good''
Cary and Catholicism
Cary, Protestantism, and Parliament
Notes

Chapter 4 ''Not Sparing Kings'': Aemilia Lanyer
Protestantism and Patronage
Counsel and ''Libertie'' in Salve Deus
Virtue, Desire, and Religious Politics in Salve Deus
''The Description of Cooke-ham'' and the Politics of Retreat
Notes
Chapter 5 Rachel Speght and the ''Criticall Reader''
''Wandring with Desire'': A Dreame
''Fettred in a Loathsome Goale'': Mortalities Memorandum
Notes
Chapter 6 Mary Wroth and the Politics of Liberty
From Captivity to Liberty in the Urania: ''No Here Ile Dye, or Set My Lady Free''

From Lament to Redress in the Urania: ''I Thus Goe Arm'd to Field''
Coda
Notes
Chapter 7 ''Yokefellow or Slave'': Anne Southwell
Anne Southwell and Puritanism
Southwell, Godly Communities, and Political Critique
Anne Southwell's ''Domestic'' Rhetoric
Notes
Epilogue: Anonymity and ''Reasonable Libertie''
''Reasonable Libertie''
Notes
Index