Introduction / Helen Wilcox
Humanist education and the Renaissance concept of woman / Hilda L. Smith
Religion and the construction of femininity / Suzanne Trill
Advice for women from mothers and patriarchs / Valerie Wayne
Women reading, reading women / Jacqueline Pearson
Women/'women' and the stage / Ann Thompson
Feminine modes of knowing and scientific enquiry : Margaret Cavendish's poetry as case study / Bronwen Price
Renaissance concepts of the 'woman writer' / Margaret W. Ferguson
Courtly writing by women / Helen Hackett
Women's poetry in early modern Britain / Elizabeth H. Hageman
Women's writing and the self / Elspeth Graham
The possibilities of prose / Betty S. Travitsky
The first female dramatists / Ros Ballaster.