With its wide-ranging sense of women's agentive roles in this faction, Crawford's monograph significantly extends scholarship on women's relationship to political, social and textual cultures in the early modern period.
Julie Crawford is Mark Van Doren Professor of Humanities and Chair of Literature Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published on a wide range of early modern authors, from Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Sidney, to Cavendish, Wroth, and Clifford, and on topics ranging from the history of reading to the history of sexuality. She is the author of a book on cheap print and the English reformation, called
Marvelous Protestantism (2005). She is currently completing a book entitled Margaret Cavendish's Political Career.