Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain

Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain offers a new account of women''s engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland, based on poetry that was produced and circulated in manuscript. Katherine Philips is often regarded as the first in a cluster of women writers, including Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, who were political, secula...