1st Edition
A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, AND ENTERTAINERS
Beale, Mary Cradock Beale
Horenbout, Susanna Horenbout [Horenbolte] Parker Gilman
Inglis, Esther Inglis Kello
Jane the Fool
Perwich, Susanna Perwich
Teerlinc, Levina Benninck Teerlinc
Thomasina
2. CRIMINALS
Abbott, Elizabeth Abbott
Arden, Alice Arden
Barnes, Elizabeth Barnes
Baynton, Mary Baynton
Bridgestone, Ann Bridgestone
Brigge, Mabel Brigge
Bulmer, Margaret Cheyne Bulmer
Caldwell, Elizabeth Caldwell
Chamber, Rebecca Chamber
Champion, Mary Champion
Clarke, Alice Clarke
Cowland, Alice Cowland
Crofte, Elizabeth Crofte
Davis, Alice Davis
Davy, Margaret Davy [Davie]
Dell, Annis Dell
Downes, Katherine Stamfort Downes
Drewry, Anne Drewry [Drewie, Calfield]
Evans, Elizabeth Evans ["Canberry Bess"]
Ferneseede, Margaret Ferneseede
Ferrers, Katherine Ferrers Fanshawe
Francis, Katherine Francis
Frith, Mary Frith ["Moll Cutpurse"]
Greene, Anne Greene
Gunter, Anne Gunter
Hamton, Anne Hamton
Hattersley, Jane Hattersley
Hayward, Petronella Brightred Hayward
Helliker, Joan Helliker
Howard, Frances Howard Devereux Carr, Countess of Essex and Somerset
Hungerford, Agnes Cotell Hungerford
Lake, Mary Ryder Lake
Osborne, Mary Osborne
Page, Eulalia Glanfield Page
Pendleton, Ellen Pendleton Floder
Phelps, Judith Phelps
Rodney, Anne Lake Cecil Rodney, Lady Ros
Saunders, Anne Saunders
Scambler, Martha Scambler
Throckmorton, Frances Brydges Throckmorton
Turner, Ann Norton Turner
Vincent, Margaret Vincent
Wallen, Anne Wallen<
Biography
Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History and Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Nebraska, USA.
Anna Riehl Bertolet is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, USA.
Jo Eldridge Carney is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey, USA.
"The encyclopedia is truly a collaborative effort, one that feels momentous: a crystillization of the maturity of the field and the range and extent of its activity [...] In sum, the amazing diversity of women's activities and undertaking documented, in greater or lesser detail, in the Biographical Encyclopedia more than makes up for any inconveniences the volume presents. One cannot help but finish even a perusal of its contents without being struck by the rich world of different presented here. And once striken, one will surely return for more."
- Patricia Phillippy, Kingston University London, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
