In this weighty edition of Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell's works, based on extensive archival research, Patricia Phillippy brings together all known writings by her: letters, poems in English, Latin, and Greek, documents describing and planning christenings, weddings, and funerals, monumental inscriptions, entertainments, petitions, and Russell's will. This ambitious and timely collection puts into practice recent critical arguments about the nature of women's writings and the importance of occasional verse, familial poetry, letters, and petitions as characteristically women's work. This collection also situates Russell, a woman, squarely and influentially in the humanist tradition, and explores her important place in English letters. This edition moves the field of early modern women's studies into new territory, with its treatment of monumental verse as an integral part of Russell's oeuvre.
-Jane Donawerth
Professor of English and affiliate faculty in women's studies
University of Maryland

About the Author
Patricia Phillippy is Professor of English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University, London. She has published on early modern women's writing and gender in English and comparative literature and culture. Her current research studies material texts and monumental writing in post-Reformation England. Jaime Goodrich is Assistant Professor of English at Wayne State University. Her articles on early modern Englishwomen's translations have appeared in Sixteenth Century Journal, English Literary Renaissance, and ANQ.



Book Information
ISBN 9780772721129
Author Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russ
Format Paperback
Page Count 514
Imprint University of Toronto Press
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Weight(grams) 860g
Dimensions(mm) 233mm * 161mm * 30mm