Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
Standard Name: Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer
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Literary responses | Lady Anne Clifford | Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
judges that AC's extant diaries record the emergence of a female self able to resist existing social norms. Clifford does not, she writes, overtly rebel against the patriarchal system, but she subversively... |
Literary responses | Lady Arbella Stuart | The Feminist Companion finds in her letters wit, passion, sense of pace, and much classical allusion. |
Literary responses | Lady Mary Wroth | |
Author summary | Rachel Speght | RS
stands out among authors of polemic answers to Joseph Swetnam's offensive misogynist pamphlet of 1615. Her editor Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
observes that she is the first Englishwoman to identify herself solidly by name (granted... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | The title of the folio is The History of The Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II. King of England and Lord of Ireland. With The Rise and Fall of his great Favourites, Gaveston
and... |
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