Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance : Relative Values

This book explores the development of familial discourse within a chronological frame, commencing with the More family and concluding with the Cavendish group. It explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, whilst closeting them within a form of writing that encompassed style or theme.

MARION WYNNE-DAVIES teaches English Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Dundee, UK. Her publications include Renaissance Women Dramatists: Texts and Documents (with S.P. Cerasano). She has also published on Shakespeare, Jonson and other early modern authors, as well as on women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.