The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at King's College London and her monograph Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry, and Culture 1640-1680 published in 2013. She has co-edited essay collections including The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 (with Johanna Harris, 2010); The Work of Form: Poetics and Materiality in Early Modern Culture (with Ben Burton, 2014); Shakespeare's Sonnets: The State of Play (with Hannah Crawforth and Clare Whitehead, 2017) and two collections of poems, On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration (with Hannah Crawforth, 2016) and Women Poets of the English Civil War (with Sarah C.E. Ross, 2017, winner of the 'Best Teaching Edition' prize of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender). Danielle Clarke is Professor of English Renaissance Language and Literature at University College Dublin. She has published widely on women's writing, gender, and poetry. Recent articles include work on the reception of Teresa de Ávila, on complaint, and on recipe books. She has just completed an edition of the recipe books from Birr Castle, Co. Offaly, Ireland (Irish Manuscripts Commission) and is working on a book called Becoming Human: Women's Writing, Time, Nature and Devotion 1550-1700. She is a section editor (Theories and Methodologies) for The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Early Modern Women's Writing in English. Sarah C. E. Ross is Associate Professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. She has published widely on early modern women's poetry, religious and political writing, and manuscript and print culture, and she is the author of Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain (2015) and editor of Katherine Austen's Book M: Additional Manuscript 4454 (2011). She has co-edited Editing Early Modern Women (2016, with Paul Salzman) and Early Modern Women's Complaint: Gender, Form, and Politics (2020, with Rosalind Smith), and her teaching anthology with Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Women Poets of the English Civil War (2017), won the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender's prize for Best Teaching Edition in 2018. She is completing a project on early modern women's complaint, and is a section editor for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing in English.