Includes bibliographical references and index Winning "the harts of the people" : the role of the political science in the Urania / Elaine Beilin -- The politics of the past : Restoration women writers on women reading history / Margaret J.M. Ezell -- The Countess of Pembroke as a Spenserian poet / Margaret P. Hannay -- Margaret Hoby's diary / Mary Ellen Lamb -- Relations of power, relations to power, and power(ful) relations : Mary Fage, Robert Fage, and Fames roule / Betty S. Travitsky -- Where are the bibliographers of yesteryear? / W. Speed Hill -- Text, context, and the authorship of The booke of Sir Thomas Moore / Arthur F. Kinney -- Poetry's birth : the maternal subtext of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilantrus / Mary Villeponteaux -- Agency and marriage in the fictions of Lady Mary Wroth and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle / Anne Shaver -- Resistant mothers and hidden children / Suzanne Gossett -- Finding a poetic voice of her own : Lady Mary Wroth's Urania / Paula Harms Payne -- Charlotte Charke and the liminality of bi-genderings / Polly S. Fields -- Crossing over : Shakespeare, Wroth, and the stories of our lives / Gary Waller 26 39