...Crystal Bartolovich Isabella Whitney's “Wyll” has been misrecognized generically because temporal utopias–of which her poem is the first instance–are not supposed to exist in the sixteenth century. Because women had a different relationship to the social and economic disruptions of emergent...

... into the many ways that women of all social ranks contributed to the making, weaving, writing, printing, etching, annotating, composing, and publishing of English literary culture. This essay takes a fresh look at the authorship of Isabella Whitney, the earliest identified woman to publish secular English verse...

... in Early Modern Convents  53 – 77 Terpstra, Nicholas Body Politics: The Criminal Body between Public and Private  7 – 52 Trettien, Whitney Isabella Whitney’s Slips: Textile Labor, Gendered Authorship, and the Early Modern Miscellany  505 – 521 Usher, Penelope Meyers “Pricking in Virgil”: Early...

... Phillipe Sidney, discussed in Josephine A. Roberts, The Imaginary Epistles of Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Penelope Rich, English Literary Renaissance 15, no. 1 (1985): 59 77. For a discussion of Isabella Whit- ney s vernacular use of the form, see Danielle Clarke, ed., Isabella Whitney, Mary Sid- ney...

... of writing. Aside from the notable exceptions of Isabella Whitney, Elizabeth I, and Mary Sidney Her- bert, few English women saw their writing in print before the seventeenth century. In a society in which acceptable women’s endeavors involved the collaborative work called copying, whether...

.../report.aspx?compid =116552; LMA, Journ. 10, fols. 209v – 10r; Barron, London, 1200 – 1500, 35 – 36. On cachet, see Luu, Immigrants, 59 – 61. 31 4 Edw. IV, c. 7, Statutes of the Realm, 2:414 – 15; Isabella Whitney, “The maner of her Wyll, & what she left to London,” in A sweet...

... in men’s first-names. 135 Vatican Archives, Reg. Aven., 204, fols. 428r–507r. 136 The most common names are, by order of importance: Johanetta, Johanna, Katerina, Guillelma, Marguerita, Peronetta, Beatrix, Agnes, Monetta, Isabella, Francesca, Stephanetta, Uguetta, Maria, Jacoba, and Alasia...