'This important volume will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in editing and gender, in the early modern period and beyond.' Gillian Wright, Renaissance Quarterly
1. Introduction: editing early modern women Sarah C. E. Ross and Paul Salzman; Part I. Editorial Ideologies: 2. The backward gaze: editing Elizabeth Tyrwhit's prayerbook Susan M. Felch; 3. Producing gender: Mary Sidney Herbert and her editors Danielle Clarke; 4. Editing the feminist agenda: the power of the textual critic and Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam Ramona Wray; 5. Contextualizing the woman writer: editing Lucy Hutchinson's religious prose Elizabeth Clarke; Part II. Editing Female Forms: Gender, Genre, and Editing: 6. Critical categories: toward an archaeology of Anne, Lady Halkett's archive Suzanne Trill; 7. Editing early modern women's letters for publication Diana Barnes; 8. Editing Queen Elizabeth I Leah Marcus; 9. Editing early modern women's dramatic writing for performance Marion Wynne-Davies; 10. Single-author manuscripts, poems (1664), and the editing of Katherine Philips Marie-Louise Coolahan; Part III. Out of the Archives, into the Classroom: 11. Out of the archives: Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania Mary Ellen Lamb; 12. Anthologizing early modern women's poetry: women poets of the English Civil War Sarah C. E. Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann; 13. Modernizing Katherine Austen's Book M (1664) for the twenty-first-century, non-expert reader Pamela S. Hammons; Part IV. Editorial Possibilities: 14. Editing early modern women in the digital age Patricia Pender and Rosalind Smith.