Sir Thomas Overbury

A miscellany titled from the longest poem in it, The Wife, and ascribed overall to Sir Thomas Overbury , reached print after being entered in the Stationers' Register in late 1613. It included two...

The Southwell family had connections with the court and with London literary society. Anne Southwell's mother-in-law, Alice (née Cornwallis), who was a cousin of the essayist William Cornwallis , may have enabled Anne to meet...

This poem suggests that women are culpably hungry for flattery (as the poet's husband felt she often was); she declares herself willing to bear sole responsibility for her sexual reputation: it will be her own...

The Murder in the Tower takes up the interpretation of a major scandal of its day (still under debate by historians) in which Frances, Countess of Somerset , was represented as the quintessentially wicked woman...

A poem, The Wife, posthumously attributed to Sir Thomas Overbury , was entered in the Stationers' Register. It appeared next year with extraneous material, some of it written by several women, who included...

Both are replies to writing by men: the certain Southwell ascription answers Donne 's Newes from the very Country, and the almost-certain one to Overbury 's own Newes from Court. Details in the...