Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

174. Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon K, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Renaissance English Text Society

Presiding: Margaret P. Hannay, Siena Coll.

1. “Petitioning Power: The Rhetorical Fashioning of Elizabethan Women’s Letters,” Erin Anne Sadlack, Marywood Univ.

2. “‘Leaven for a Suspitious Jealous Cake’: Cooking, Cash, and Civil War in Jane Cavendish’s Manuscript Poetry,” Emily Smith, Decatur, GA

3. “‘Saturn (Whose Aspects Soe Sads My Soul)’: Lady Hester Pulter’s Feminine Melancholic Genius,” Alice Eardley, Warwick Univ.

Respondent: Elizabeth H. Hageman, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham

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