Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Gender, Genre and Attribution in Early Modern Women’s Sonnet Sequences and Collections ‘In a mirrour clere’: Anne Lock’s Miserere mei Deus as Admonitory Protestantism Generating Absence: The Sonnets of Mary Stuart The Politics of Prosopopoeia: The Pandora Sonnets The Politics of Withdrawal: Lady Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Lindamira’s Complaint Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

ROSALIND SMITH is a Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published articles on gender and poetry in the early modern period and is preparing a monograph on Marian textual practice.